The Must-See NASA-Inspired Exhibit in Barrio Logan

Melissa Walter’s abstract exhibit Of All Things, at Ice Gallery inside Bread & Salt through September 29, was inspired by her job as a science illustrator at NASA. It’s also a response to the gallery owner’s encouragement to broaden her horizons by creating a large scale, site-specific work.

The installation uses thousands of handmade paper pyramids to translate the intangible idea of space into ordinary materials, in a way that’s meant to spur contemplation of their relation to the “limitless omniverse”—that is, every universe that exists.

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“It’s my most ambitious work,” she says, noting that it challenged her to work with geometry in new ways. “I knew what I would create would be pretty impactful as a result of working in that space.” Or as we see it, something pretty out of this world.

Of All Things

Through September 29

1955 Julian Avenue, Logan Heights

The Must-See NASA-Inspired Exhibit in Barrio Logan

Photo by Nate Hoffman