Multiverse at the Claremont Museum of Art broaches cosmic mysteries in a surprisingly accessible, relevant manner. The exhibition, which opened September 21st, includes a multi-media array of thoughtful, visually arresting explorations of what is unknown and what is observable. Kerry Tribe re-imagines the Northern Lights; Jedediah Caesar deals with material density; Sebastiaan Bremer uses photography to explore memory’s intangibility.

In an email dialogue available on the Museum’s webpage, Sebastiaan Bremer discusses memory and what is real with Dr. Vatche Sahakian and Nancy Macko discusses astronomy and parallel universes with Dr. Stefan A. Naftilan–the artists take the role of question askers and proposition makers, while the scientists act as the answer givers. The dialogue gives a nuanced portrait of the earnestness with which these artists grapple with uncertainty and the cosmos. The exhibition also includes Sebastiaan Bremer, Violet Hopkins, Emre Huner, Miler Lagos, Nancy Macko, Carter Mull, Diana Thater, and Fred Tomaselli. Multiverse continues through December 28, 2008.