This exhibition of artworks combined photography, sculpture, paint and light to create living, moving works of art. Through the motion of light, the pieces encouraged a contemporary audience, accustomed to quickly-changing images, to participate in conversations about our world. Each work offered commentary on an important social issue of today, such as consumerism, deforestation, and the beauty of life’s small moments. Collectively, the installation strove to prove that it is possible to encourage people to pause from their busy lives to experience art.
Light as Art. Art as Change. " |
Times Square
Structures welded from steel box tube loomed 8-10’ tall over viewers of this piece, dwarfing them by comparison. The towers formed an abstracted Times Square in perspective, with each “shop window” showcasing an anti-logo poking fun at American consumerism. The towers flashed wildly, like their namesake, making it difficult to focus on individual logos.
Structures welded from steel box tube loomed 8-10’ tall over viewers of this piece, dwarfing them by comparison. The towers formed an abstracted Times Square in perspective, with each “shop window” showcasing an anti-logo poking fun at American consumerism. The towers flashed wildly, like their namesake, making it difficult to focus on individual logos.
Light Forest
Light brought to life a stand of metal trees, casting multiple shadows to create a forest. Peaceful natural sounds filled the space as a human entered it. First the performer studied and experienced the forest. Then they destroyed it, extinguishing the lights as the trees were aurally felled. The video below contains excerpts from several improvised performances given by Michael Kaye's Theatre Ensemble class of 2014.
Light brought to life a stand of metal trees, casting multiple shadows to create a forest. Peaceful natural sounds filled the space as a human entered it. First the performer studied and experienced the forest. Then they destroyed it, extinguishing the lights as the trees were aurally felled. The video below contains excerpts from several improvised performances given by Michael Kaye's Theatre Ensemble class of 2014.
Life Portal
Theatre students around the Huntington Theater paint shop were each invited to take a break from the stresses of midterms to paint a 4'x4' square of masonite in whatever fashion they desired. The painted squares were then assembled, along with some hanging colorful fabric, into a portal and lit with color-scrolling lights so that the colors and patterns of the squares shifted constantly. Visitors to the gallery passed through this portal in order to enter the space. Upon arriving before it, they were invited by the ebbing and flowing of color to stop and stay for a bit to take in a simple moment of beauty--the way that the students who painted the squares took a few minutes to have a little fun.
Theatre students around the Huntington Theater paint shop were each invited to take a break from the stresses of midterms to paint a 4'x4' square of masonite in whatever fashion they desired. The painted squares were then assembled, along with some hanging colorful fabric, into a portal and lit with color-scrolling lights so that the colors and patterns of the squares shifted constantly. Visitors to the gallery passed through this portal in order to enter the space. Upon arriving before it, they were invited by the ebbing and flowing of color to stop and stay for a bit to take in a simple moment of beauty--the way that the students who painted the squares took a few minutes to have a little fun.