John chervinsky biography

John Chervinsky is a self-taught photographer—he is also an engineer who works in the field of applied physics, and he spent eighteen years running a particle accelerator at Harvard University.

It comes as no surprise then that his artistic practice is deeply informed by science as well as a strong inclination for exploration; for his collaborations with museums, Chervinsky uses accelerator technology in the analysis of art.

Chervinsky has said, “I am fascinated by the concept of time.

I can measure it, account for it in an experiment in the lab, and live my life in it, but I still don’t know what it is, exactly.” His series Studio Physics thus addresses “the physical phenomena of still and moving objects in space over time” through multidimensional still life compositions, the product of an involved process for which the artist first creates and photographs a still life arrangement—of oranges scattered