Artist: Alvin Light ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (100)
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Alvin Light Untitled drawing 20th century
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Marty Links "The ring looks familiar, Alvin...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen andblack ink~ 1951
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Marty Links Emmy Lou: "And the reason I trust Alvin... ..., for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou ~pen and black ink~ 1952
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Marty Links "But somehow knowing Alvin has never been...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1951
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Marty Links "Dad, Alvin mentioned something about a dowry...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink and blue pencil~ 1951
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Marty Links "Yes Alvin, EmmyLou is late coming home..." , for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink~ 1951
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Marty Links "You're right-Alvin and I aren't speaking...", for the syndicated cartoon series Emmy Lou pen and black ink, blue pencil, and opaque white watercolor~ 1951
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Alvin Langdon Coburn - Self-Portrait n.d. autochrome The Royal Photographic Society British
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Alvin Langdon Coburn - Wapping 1909 photogravure The Royal Photographic Society British
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Alvin Langdon Coburn - Vortograph 1917 gelatin silver print Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Alvin Langdon Coburn - Vortograph 1917 gelatin silver print The Royal Photographic Society British
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Alvin Langdon Coburn - The Bridge, Venice 1908 photogravure The Royal Photographic Society British
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Alvin Langdon Coburn - Grand Canyon 1911 platinum print Cleveland Museum of Art British
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Alvin Amason - Bull 1979 mixed media Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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Alvin Langdon Coburn - Williamsburg Bridge, New York 1910 photogravure The Royal Photographic Society British
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The Octopus, 1912 Alvin Langdon Coburn (British, born America, 1882-1966)Depicted: New York City, New York,
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Winslow Homer - A Light on the Sea 1897 oil on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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George Segal - The Red Light 1972 plaster and mixed me Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Alvin Fisher - A Calm Watering Place-- Extensive and Boundless Scene with Cattle 1816 oil on panel Cleveland Museum of Art American
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Joos van Cleve St. Francis Receiving the Stigmata oil on panel 15th - 16th century
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Yuzuo Nakano Evolution of Light - from the series The Evolution of Light Color etching 1980
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Yuzuo Nakano Evolution of Light - from the seriesThe Evolution of Light Color etching 1980
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Photogram
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Barbara Delaney - Light Gathers 1997 acrylic on canvas Birmingham Museums and Art Gallery German
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Ralph Albert Blakelock - Afternoon Light c. 1880-90 oil on canvas Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
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Samuel Finley Breese Gilliam - Light Depth 1969 acrylic on canvas Corcoran Gallery of Art American
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Edward Wadsworth - Light Sectors 1940 tempera Brighton and Hove Museums English
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Arthur Bowen Davies - Air, Light and Wave c. 1914-1917 oil on canvas High Museum of Art
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Frederic Edwin Church - El Rio de Luz (The River of Light) 1877 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Lawrence Calcagno - Black Light 1969 acrylic on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Gregory Amenoff - Light in August 1996 oil on canvas Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art American
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Mark Rothko - Light over Gray 1956 oil on canvas Des Moines Art Center American
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James Rosenquist - The Light That Won't Fail I 1961 oil on canvas Hirshhorn Museum American
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Jackson Pollock - White Light 1954 oil, enamel, and alu The Museum of Modern Art American
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Giacomo Balla - Street Light c. 1910-11 oil on canvas The Museum of Modern Art Italian
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George M. Bruestle - Light and Shadows n.d. Oil on canvas Florence Griswold Museum American
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Carl Gutherz - Light of the Incarnation 1888 oil on canvas Brooks Museum American
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Light-Space Modulator
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Sean Scully - Wall of Light Black 1998 oil on linen Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame American
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Elizabeth O'Neill Verner - The Harbor Light, Savannah c. 1926 etching on paper Telfair Museum of Art American
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Ellsworth Kelly - Light Green Panel 1981-1982 painted aluminum National Gallery of Art American
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Paris Bordone - Christ as the Light of the World c. 1540-1560 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London French
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Asher Brown Durand - Forest in the Morning Light c. 1855 oil on canvas National Gallery of Art American
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Sean Scully - Wall of Light Red Night 2003-2004 oil on linen Des Moines Art Center American
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Josef Albers - Homage to the Square, New Light 1967 acrylic on board The Art Institute of Chicago American
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Bernard D'Andrea - White Light Presences 1972 oil on canvas Telfair Museum of Art American
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Hans Lachner "And God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night..." Engraving 16th - 17th century
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Untitled Rayograph (Light Patterns)
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Ogden M Pleissner - Morning Light, Essex, Connecticut n.d. Watercolor on paper Florence Griswold Museum American
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Jan van de Cappelle - A Small Vessel in Light Airs c. 1650-1660 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Dutch
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The Resurrection
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Robert Motherwell - Harvest, In Scotland (Summer Light Series) 1973 lithograph and colla Des Moines Art Center American
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Jan van de Cappelle - Vessels in Light Airs on a River near a Town c. 1645-1655 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Dutch
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Martin Johnson Heade - Magnolias on Light Blue Velvet Cloth 1885-95 oil on canvas The Art Institute of Chicago
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George Ault - Bright Light at Russell's Corners 1946 oil on canvas Smithsonian American Art Museum American
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George C. Ault Highland Light oil on canvas 1929
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Lacock Abbey
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Jan van de Cappelle - A Small Dutch Vessel before a Light Breeze c. 1645-1655 oil on canvas The National Gallery, London Dutch
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Hall of the Ambassadors, Alhambra, Granada
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Beaker, 9th–10th century Attributed to Iran or IraqBlown, tooled, and relief-cut glass; H. 5 3/8
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Orchard Painter Utchat (or eye of Horus) light blue; hole in center faience 305 BC - 30 BC
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Sito Conte Light beige fiber from weaver's kit cotton? and dye 1300 - 1400
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Jacob Jordaens Textile fragment light and dark brown cotton 900 - 1476
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White Chrysanthemums
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Cadwallader Washburn Fading Light Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Helen Bruton Light Refreshments etching 1930
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Hiroshige II Amanohashidate in Tango Province, from the series One Hundred Famous Places inthe Provinces (Shokoku meisho hyakkei) color woodcut circa 1859
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Kerr Eby Light in the Woods Etching 19th - 20th century
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Hans Hofmann - And out of the Caves the Night Threw a Handful of Pale Tumbling Pigeons in the Light 1964 Oil on Canvas University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
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Pair of Girandoles
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Rookwood Pottery Factory Conical vase light blue ceramic 1921
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Cadwallader Washburn Shimmering Light Etching/Drypoint 19th - 20th century
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Rookwood Pottery Factory Vase light blue, decorated ceramic 1920
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Robert Adam Wall Light ormolu and cut glass circa 1790 - 1800
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Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn, Dutch, 1606-1669 Abraham Caressing Isaac Jacob Caressing Benjamin about 1637 Copper
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Waterford Factory Double light candelabra with baluster stem and hanging prism glass 19th century
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James McGarrell Light and Dark Color lithograph 20th century
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Waterford Factory Double light candelabra with baluster stem and hanging prism glass 19th century
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Henry Wolf Light in shade 19th - 20th century
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Henry Wolf Light in shade 19th - 20th century
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Rooftop and Chimneys, Lacock Abbey
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The Agony in the Garden
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Jeanne Deny Candle Light Dinner 18th century
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Yuzuo Nakano Evolution of Light Color etching 1980
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Artist: Henry Hamilton Bennett Title: Into Palace at South Entrance, by Electric Light, St. Paul
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Rudy Pozzati Trees in Autumn Light Colored etching 1959
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Woman Reading to a Girl
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The Garden of the Tuileries on a Winter Afternoon, 1899 Camille Pissarro (French, 1830-1903)Oil on
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Tournai Factory Dress fragment, blue and red plaid on white ground light wool (barege) 1830 - 1850
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The Annunciation
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Arrangement of Specimens
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Eugene Louis Boudin Harbor at Bordeaux oil on light linen 1874
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Pair of Girandoles
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Stevan Dohanos West Quoddy Light Wood engraving 20th century
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Fortune Louis Meaulle Preparing for the light etching 19th century
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Carl Armin Hansen Mile Rock Light Drypoint 1923
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Artist: Katsushika Hokusai Title: Autumn Evening Light at Choko Date: about 1832 - 1835 Medium:
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Artist: Berenice Abbott Title: Beams of Light Through Glass Date: about 1960 Medium: gelatin silver
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Compagnie des Cristalleries de Baccarat High crowned paper weight bubbleformed pot of flowers enclosed in light green glass circa 1860
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Light Towers of the HËve, plate 42 in the book The Rivers of France (London: published for the proprietor, by Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green and Longman, 1837) engraving 1837

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (30)
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Canberra Contemporary Art Space: Madeleine Challender: Light Forms
Madele Challender is an emerging artist working in the medium of light. She began creating light installations in 1998 when she spent six months at L'ecole des Beaux Arts Paris. In 1999 s...
National Gallery: Light
The first section, Symbolic Light, contains works in which light takes on a metaphorical meaning, such as the Gallery’s 'Adoration of the Shepherds' by Rembrandt and the rarely seen 'After the Deluge; the Forty-First Day' by G. F. Watts (Guildfor...
Jewish Museum: LIGHT  x  EIGHT: THE HANUKKAH PROJECT 2000
As a holiday commemorating the indomitable nature of light and spirit, Hanukkah is a fitting occasion to show works that represent light's mystical qualities.  Light x Eight will remain on view though January 29, 2001. Hanukkah beings at ...
Moving Image Gallery & New Radio and Performing Arts, Inc.: Loopixel: A Series of Projected Computer Generated Imagery on Canvas
Mr. Golan says, My work embraces the physical projection light, and yet, is related to the romantic idea of using light as a metaphor for the realization of the nature of art and ideals....
Guggenheim, Berlin: Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light
In the early 1960s, Flavin began experimenting with fluorescent lights in combination with simple wooden constructions, which he quickly abandoned in favor of the unadorned fixture. Having embraced the industrial fluorescent light as an aesthetic ...
La Raza Galeria Posada: Jesse Vasquez : Postcards from Paradox
"The speed of light has become one of the most accurately known constants of nature" - Brill & Stork Falk The mission of La Raza Galeria Posada is to advance, celebrate and preserve the art and culture of the Chicano, Latino and Native people ...
ART TEC: Engineering Services for Artists: Custom Programmed Light, Motion, Sound or Video
He can hack CD, DVD and VCR units so they can repeat play, play selected tracks, play in sync, cue or interact with other events. See several well documented sample projects on his web site:
Van Gogh Museum: Light! Art, technology and society in the Industrial Age, 1750-1900
By means of approximately 300 objects, the evolution of light and the resulting impact on social, economic and artistic realms is highlighted. Included are some spectacular loans, such as the Statue of Liberty from the Jardin du Luxembourg in Pari...
VIRTUALITAS Fine Arts online: E. COLTON: Mit der Geschwindigkeit des Lichtes [with the rate of the light]
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Dayton Art Institute: Color Connections
Color Connections visitors will study the scientific principles behind color, the chemistry and sources of creating color, and the psychology of color in how it is used in art to communicate different moods and messages. Included will be particip...
198 Gallery: Vision Light: Work by Artists with Visual Impairment
Led by Trinidadian artist Mario Lewis, the Vision Light series of workshops aimed at giving a group of diverse visually impaired individuals an opportunity to explore and communicate how they experience being both audiences and makers of art. The ...
Notting Hill Gate Improvements Group: Kensington Koan
Her early work as a sculptor was preoccupied with light as a metaphor for spirit or mind which led her to an interest in science, technology and science fiction. She has designed and made numerous large scale public sculptures in the UK: Wh...
Victoria and Albert Museum: Brilliant: Contemporary Lighting
The second part of the exhibition features hundreds of domestic lights and 'light-objects' by designers who have produced some of the most exciting and innovative products of recent years including Tom Dixon, Marcel Wanders, Gitta Gschwendtner and...
Craft ACT: Craft and Design Centre: Gallery Walls Aglow with New Glass by Kirstie Rea
Rea has approached her new work with the intent of exploring the combination of glass and the gallery’s architecture. A major component of this exhibition is the interaction of the works with light, and how the light spills from the edges of the w...
PhotoDisc, Inc.: Light
The exhibition takes place on 9th - 26th December 1999 at Central London bar The Edge, 11 Soho Square London W1V 5DB. This show ties in with the launch of the third issue of the PhotoDisc customer magazine dFusion and is a taster of more gre...
Dia Center for the Arts: Robert Irwin: Excursus: Homage to the Square3
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ArtSpace: GLOW: Reiko Aoyagi, Phillipa Lawrence, Artstation
Focussing on the possibilities of these elements either metaphorically or literally, the artists will work with a range of materials to produce large scale, site specific installations involving 600 gold-leaf covered light bulbs, huge inflatable ...
Texas Fine Arts Association at Jones Center for Contemporary Art: Glow: Aspects of Light in Contemporary American Art
Light, which makes vision possible, has always been a component of visual art, although in certain periods light has been more significant than in others. The tenebrism of Caravaggio and de la Tour, for example, represents the use of light in the...
Palacio Municipal de Zapopan: Acción restringida (Restricted action) Works by José Castillo
The first serie: are landscapes; the semantic field is the emptiness and silence, from those two words images are created, like visual poetry, this serie are titled "memory of silence" and this accompanied by an journalist Francisco Rojas's text ....
Museum der Moderne Mönchsberg: ein-leuchten
"Light" in this sense is derived from the Greek concept of "phainomenon" - the appearance - something which is emerging in the process of becoming and metamorphosis. For a brief period of time, "ein-leuchten" articulates the stage of emergence...
International Center of Photography: Ken Light: Coal Hollow
Light shows how the erosion of the coal mining industry has devastated individual lives and families in the close-knit communities of rural West Virginia. Where generations of coal miners once made their livelihood off the plentiful supply of co...
Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum: Illuminated Cities - Illuminated Art
For this reason the Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum is organizing an exhibition that marks the interface between light art and city lights. Exemplary works of 20th century light art are to be integrated in the museum's collections. In changin...
Kunsthaus Bregenz: Keith Sonnier
In the series BA-O-BA, begun in 1969, still in progress and clearly characterized by this postminimalist concept of New Sculpture, Sonnier combines materials and motifs from foreign cultures with those of modern ...
Fountain Gallery: Chasing the Light: Paintings by Amy Koy, Sketches by Jonathan Glass
Added Steve Harlow, The title could apply to photography, but in this show we are demonstrating a timeless art, the art of hand rendering a visual representation with color and line on canvas and paper. Painting in oils, Amy Koy observes he...
Back Street Gallery: Goghwen Lee: Symbiosis
Everything that IS, as opposed to the NOT, represented by the symbiotic relationship of light and dark. And by what IS, he does not simply mean the present, current time-but also what WAS and WILL BE, an awareness of what and that we are unaware-...
Malmo Konsthall: Olafur Eliasson: The Light Setup
In the exhibition Eliasson uses light in a concrete form and provides us with experiences while simultaneously commenting on its history and mythology. A history and mythology that artists in particular have contributed to by trying to capture or ...
Sculpture Square Limited : Chng Nai Wee: Moleculux - Luminescent Bodies in Hyperspace
During the day, the sculpture will be observed as a 3-dimensional formation of light cable on white painted frame. When dusk arrives and the lights are turned on, it will transform into a glowing light sculpture cast against the night sky. ...
Art Gallery of Ontario: In Light: Francis Alys
The Art Gallery of Ontario is proud to highlight the importance of video art. Beginning April 6, 2002 and running until April 4, 2004, an exhibition series entitled In Light will present video installations by eight contemporary artists. This two-...
Skirball Cultural Center: Time/Space, Gravity, and Light: Digital Art and Multimedia Installation
On display will be Listening Post, by Mark Hansen and Ben Rubin, offering a real-time representation of global communication moving at the speed of light; Protrude, Flow, by Sachiko Kodama and Minako Takeno, an electromagnetic installation in whic...
MK Galerie: Shane Waltener: Music for Walls and Other Takes
The recent series of photographs are pictorial renditions of movement, space and time as still images, and relate in this way to the two installations. Take Me In is a knitted web spelling these very words. It compliments the light installat...

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