--- title: 2015_Oakes_LA Book Review date: 2017-10-13T15:53:00-04:00 author: Graham Murray canonical_url: "https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2015-oakes-la-book-review" section: News --- [![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg)](/) ![](/src/images/search.svg) View Artists Search Artists [Exhibitions](/feature_exhibitions) [Past Exhibitions](/past_exhibitions/) [Artists](/artist_overview) [News & Press](/news_overview) [Inventory](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery/artists) [Publications](/feature_publications) [Gallery Info](/about) [Contact](/contact) [![Facebook](/src/images/fb.svg)](https://www.facebook.com/RonaldFeldmanGallery/) [![Instagram](/src/images/ig.svg)](https://www.instagram.com/feldmangallery/) [![Twitter](/src/images/tw.svg)](https://twitter.com/feldmangallery?lang=en) [Artsy](https://www.artsy.net/ronald-feldman-gallery) [Artnet](http://www.artnet.com/galleries/ronald-feldman-fine-arts/) ![](/src/images/close_btn.svg) 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](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/fredric-riskin-1) [ Richard Ross ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/richard-ross) S [ Diemut Strebe ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/diemut-strebe) [ Edwin Schlossberg ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/edwin-schlossberg) [ Federico Solmi ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/federico-solmi-) [ Jason Salavon ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/jason-salavon) [ Todd Siler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/todd-siler) U [ Mierle Laderman Ukeles ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/mierle-laderman-ukeles) V [ Sam Van Aken ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/sam-van-aken) W [ Allan Wexler ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/allan-wexler) [ Andy Warhol ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/andy-warhol) [ Clemens Weiss ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/clemens-weiss) [ Hannah Wilke ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/hannah-wilke) Y [ Gil Yefman ](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/gil-yefman) [ ![Ronald Feldman Gallery logo](/src/images/rff_logo.svg) ](/) [The Oakes Twins](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) Ode to Oakes LA Book Review Jan 07, 2015 ARISTOTLE ENVISIONED a celestial universe of 55 crystalline spheres concentrically organized around the earth, each carrying a planet along its orbit by the angular momentum of the outermost ring, the Prime Mover, made of nothing but divine motion. Ptolemy advanced the notion of epicycles and deferents, the planets revolving like gears along a universe still cycling, like clockwork cranked on the axle of our planet. Copernicus took his last leave of the earth in 1543 looking on the pages of *De revolutionibus orbium coelestium*, espousing a universe oriented on the sun, the heliocentrism that Galileo would suffer his final nine years under house arrest to defend. Against the linear progression of astronomy, artists Ryan and Trevor Oakes have returned the universe to the glory of spheres, centering it not merely on the earth, but on the eye. **[Read more here](https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/ode-oakes#!)** Related News & Press Mar 15, 2017 [ ![Oakes Bond Street Terrace 2014](/assets/exhibition_images/Oakes/Press-Thumbnails/Oakes-Bond-Street-Terrace-2014.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-oakes-nautilus) Mar 15, 2017 Nautilus [The Oakes Twins](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) [What This Drawing Taught Me About Four-Dimensional Spacetime](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2017-oakes-nautilus) Aug 14, 2014 [ ![Oakes Flatiron Building 2014 Hero](/assets/exhibition_images/Oakes/Press-Thumbnails/Oakes-Flatiron-Building-2014_hero.JPG) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-oakes-new-york-times) Aug 14, 2014 The New York Times [The Oakes Twins](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) [How a Pair of Twins Redrew an Iconic Photograph](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-oakes-new-york-times) May 28, 2014 [ ![Oakes Frac Orange And Green 2005](/assets/exhibition_images/Oakes/Press-Thumbnails/Oakes-Frac-Orange-and-Green-2005.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-oakes-huffington-post) May 28, 2014 The Huffington Post [The Oakes Twins](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) [Identical Twins Combine Art And Math In Hypnotic Exhibition](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-oakes-huffington-post) Jun 05, 2014 [ ![Oakes Have No Narrow Perspective Field Museum 2009](/assets/exhibition_images/Oakes/Press-Thumbnails/Oakes-Have-No-Narrow-Perspective-Field-Museum-2009.jpg) ](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-oakes-livescience) Jun 05, 2014 Live Science [The Oakes Twins](https://feldmangallery.com/artist-home/the-oakes-twins) [Double Vision: Twin Artists Create Curved, Lifelike Landscapes](https://feldmangallery.com/news/2017/2014-oakes-livescience) [See All Press ](https://feldmangallery.com/news_overview) Ronald Feldman Gallery has been at the frontier of contemporary art since 1971. 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