Photo credit: Katy Ann Gilmore
Los Angeles-based artist Katy Ann Gilmore uses math, physics, and simple lines to created mind-bending optical illusions, not Photoshop. She earned her BA in Mathematics, Art, and Spanish from Greenville College in Greenville, IL as well as an MFA in Visual Art from Azusa Pacific University in Azusa, CA. Many of the organic shapes in her art use geometry and brings them together with nature like a topographic map. Read more for additional pictures and information.
Her works are mainly in black and white, while using a combination of straight and curved lines. The former is drawn with sharp angles to create the illusion of three-dimensional space, and the curved to show dips and peaks. In previous works, she draws thread-like, tightly-spaced, elongated lines, and others are rendered in hundreds of hand-drawn triangles.
“I’m currently influenced heavily by topography and the relationship between 2D, perpendicular planes, and their distortions into 3D space,” said Gilmore.
