A group of fourteen artists have used natural light as an essential material for artistic creation, much as they would use marble, wood or paint. They have sought inspiration from the sun, stars, and moon; from lightning and fire.
The resultant show, entitled ‘Light and Landscape’, features work of art that highlight not only the natural light’s visual experience, but also its impact on our day-to-day lives as well as ecosystem. Fugitive by very nature, the light efficiently harnessed here - by, among other names, Tobias Putrih, Alyson Shotz, and Anish Kapoor - changes right through the day and during the entire course of the exhibition season.
Other participating artists follow a conceptual approach to natural light, looking to translate its energy into other meaningful forms; the light acts as their point of departure. The confetti that gets released from Katie Paterson’s miniature cannon is matched to the colors of gamma-ray bursts.
Spencer Finch’s Lunar makes use of solar energy for powering a lunar module. Projects executed by Peter Coffin and Diana Thater looks to assess the impact of sunlight on animal life. Coffin’s Untitled (Bees Making Honey) is comprised of tours of an apiary just at the outskirts of Storm King’s property, whereas Thater’s ‘Composite Sun’ is apparently inspired by her work on behalf of dolphins. The associate curator, Nora Lawrence, elaborates: “Light illuminates our days, and so time, too, becomes a pervasive and important theme.”
The avenue of Storm King Art Center serves as an inimitable and immaculate setting for an intriguing exhibition about light. Its 500-acre landscape has been inspiring to many. Most of the works on display here are site-specific, or made especially for this exhibit. It’s interspersed among the center’s permanent collection - both inside and out.
When it was founded, the venue focused on the radiant, sublime vistas visualized by the painters of the 19th-century Hudson River School. The show honors this glorious chapter in the history of Storm King by presenting an array of contemporary artists who continue the great work of these predecessors, treating natural light in newer ways.
‘Light and Landscape’ show runs through November 11, 2012 at Storm King Art Center, Old Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville (for GPS: 1 Museum Road, New Windsor, N.Y.)
The resultant show, entitled ‘Light and Landscape’, features work of art that highlight not only the natural light’s visual experience, but also its impact on our day-to-day lives as well as ecosystem. Fugitive by very nature, the light efficiently harnessed here - by, among other names, Tobias Putrih, Alyson Shotz, and Anish Kapoor - changes right through the day and during the entire course of the exhibition season.
Other participating artists follow a conceptual approach to natural light, looking to translate its energy into other meaningful forms; the light acts as their point of departure. The confetti that gets released from Katie Paterson’s miniature cannon is matched to the colors of gamma-ray bursts.
Spencer Finch’s Lunar makes use of solar energy for powering a lunar module. Projects executed by Peter Coffin and Diana Thater looks to assess the impact of sunlight on animal life. Coffin’s Untitled (Bees Making Honey) is comprised of tours of an apiary just at the outskirts of Storm King’s property, whereas Thater’s ‘Composite Sun’ is apparently inspired by her work on behalf of dolphins. The associate curator, Nora Lawrence, elaborates: “Light illuminates our days, and so time, too, becomes a pervasive and important theme.”
The avenue of Storm King Art Center serves as an inimitable and immaculate setting for an intriguing exhibition about light. Its 500-acre landscape has been inspiring to many. Most of the works on display here are site-specific, or made especially for this exhibit. It’s interspersed among the center’s permanent collection - both inside and out.
When it was founded, the venue focused on the radiant, sublime vistas visualized by the painters of the 19th-century Hudson River School. The show honors this glorious chapter in the history of Storm King by presenting an array of contemporary artists who continue the great work of these predecessors, treating natural light in newer ways.
‘Light and Landscape’ show runs through November 11, 2012 at Storm King Art Center, Old Pleasant Hill Road, Mountainville (for GPS: 1 Museum Road, New Windsor, N.Y.)
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