The Lunar Codex uses digital and analog technology to preserve art, books, music, and more, enclosed in time capsules and launched to the Moon. It is a message-in-a-bottle to the future.

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Curatorial Notes

Gallery D showcases a selection of works from the Νουα and Polaris collections, representing only a small fraction of the total works archived by the Lunar Codex.

 

Highlights of this showcase are works by artists of the 2021 Bennett Prize®. The Bennett Prize for Women Figurative Realists is an art prize endowed by art collectors and philanthropists Steven Alan Bennett and his wife Dr. Elaine Melotti Schmidt in 2016, establisjed with an endowment at The Pittsburgh Foundation. It is the largest art award ever offered solely to women painters.

 

The winner of The Bennett Prize receives $25,000 annually for each of two years to allow her to devote the time necessary to mount a solo exhibition of figurative realist paintings. In addition, The Bennett Prize also offers cash awards of $1000 to each of up to ten finalists selected from among the entrants.

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Despite the Bennetts’ limitation of their personal collection to paintings of women by women artists, the Bennett Prize is not similarly restricted. Depictions of all genders are permissible, although the artist must be a woman.

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In selecting these works for inclusion in the Lunar Codex highlights this shared belief with The Bennet Prize that, by showcasing the talent of women figurative painters, women artists will find their place among the most celebrated painters in the art world.

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