Study in every field of fine arts has been my major preoccupation since 1938. I have studied painting using all the standard media, as well as drawing, collage, lithography and etching. My work in sculpture has included clay, wood, stone and ceramics, as well as welding and various metal techniques. All of this training had its basis in a technical and realistic approach. I subsequently broke away from realism, branching out into impressionism, abstraction, non-objective, pop, etc. Through all these years of study, I have been constantly seeking my own personal form of expression.

My educational background includes the beginning work at Midwood High School in Brooklyn, from which I went to Pratt Institute, the Brooklyn Museum Art School, the Art Students League, and Syracuse University. In painting, I have worked under the personal supervision of Morris Kantor and Manfred Schwartz with similar instruction in sculpture from John Hovannes, Milton Hebald and Chaim Gross.

The above fundamental background in these art media has given me the knowledge, training and discipline to cope with the detail, precision and planning required in each assemblage of my multi-dimensional art form - Atomic Art.

Using high voltage electron radiation, I break down the molecular structure of acrylics (Plexiglas) creating the "Tree of Life" pattern. Encouraged to experiment along these lines in 1962 by Dr. Kennard Morganstern, President of Radiation Dynamics, Inc., I evolved a way of harnessing the radiation from high-voltage particle accelerators, and after many years of experimentation, I have it under complete control, giving predictable results each time.
           
Dr. Morganstern and Alyce Simon inspect some of her first atomic energy experiments in 1962.

As an artist I have been interested in the visual effects radiation would achieve, and I have found acrylics and glass to be the most interesting medium. This posed a completely new set of challenges: machinery to master; sawing, lathing, milling, drilling, pressurized gluing, and heating. The major problem was the technical development and control of the radiation itself. This, of course, led into the perfection of lighting techniques with control of the intensity, depth, and edge-lighting essential to the spatial mood changes in each art form.

My own expression as a creative artist has crystallized with this newfound and very personal medium. I am seeking the central core of humanity --not isolating, but reaching through the senses to a relevant human experience.

-Alyce Simon