Alyce Simon's art synthesizes the scientific achievements and the aesthetics of the 20th Century, reflecting both in her work with particle accelerators. With the cooperation of nuclear scientists from Radiation Dynamics of Westbury, New York, she developed a new process that gave birth to Atomic Art.

Ms. Simon had been contemplating the possible effect of an electron beam on various materials since the early sixties. She spent years testing and experimenting before she was able to control the stream of electrons from the particle accelerator, thus rendering it a creative tool. The result of her efforts is a one-of-a-kind method in the world of art. With a pre-designed visual concept, she bombards acrylic/glass with electrons from a high voltage particle accelerator, creating three dimensional shapes and patterns within the transparent substance.

Nuclear power is one of the most controversial phenomena of the twentieth century. It is worshipped as much as it is feared. However, in Alyce Simon's hands, nuclear power creates lingering, fragile organic forms resembling the texture of winter trees, veins in a human body or seaweed waving in the ocean; it represents a visual world incomparable to any other medium.

The initial results of this new art technique were exhibited at the Smithsonian Institution in 1969. The first series of objects had the character of a painting or assemblage. Atom-smashed sheets of acrylic were cut into geometric shapes, colored and mounted in frames with a built-in controllable light. Ms. Simon calls them “Spatial Paintings." Since that time, Alyce Simon’s art has gained world-wide acclaim, including endorsements from such institutions as the United Nations, The Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and other national and international bodies.