Gary Nickard, “Miller/Urey Redux”

Gary Nickard is a conceptual artist committed to exploring the interstices between visual art and literature while engaging such diverse topics as science, philosophy, psychoanalysis and various historical knowledge systems. The aim of his project at Coalesce is to recreate the famous experiments of Harold Urey and Stanley Miller — in which many of the basic building block of life were synthesized using components of an early Earth atmosphere — but using gas mixtures typical in atmospheres more like that of other planets or their moons.

Gary Nickard is an artist/theorist and Clinical Associate Professor of Art at the University at Buffalo.