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- Dan Flavin. Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.
- Robert Irwin. Irwin is an American artist who explores perception, most often through site-specific, architectural interventions that alter the physical, sensory and temporal experience of space.
- James Turrell. Turrell is an American artist, also associated with the California Light and Space artist movement. In 1965 he received a BA degree in perceptual psychology, and also studied mathematics, geology and astronomy, after which he enrolled in the graduate Studio Art program at the University of California, Irvine.
- Mary Corse. Corse is an American artist whose work focuses on perceptual phenomena and the idea that light itself can serve as both subject and material in art.
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The only light source is natural light, as though from a window. The shining white tablecloth and the jug reflect this light back at the viewer, toying with us and demanding attention. For the Impressionists in the 19th century, light took on a different but similarly central role.
- Artists Leveraging Light in Illuminating Ways
- Ólafur Elíasson
- Yasuhiro Chida
- Tracey Emin
- Ivan Navarro
- Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
- Mary Weatherford
- Keith Sonnier
- Jacqueline Hen
- James Turrell
Here are nine contemporary artists who have taken the light and used it to expand our imaginations and help define luminism.
Born in 1967, Icelandic-Danish artist Olafur Eliasson is known for his immersive large-scale light installations and works that typically focus on natural phenomenon and social issues. Some of his light installations include Room For One Colour (1998) and 360 degrees Room For All Colours (2002). His Din blinde passager (Your blind passenger)(2010) ...
International Light Art Award finalist Yasuhiro Chida has participated in the Amsterdam Light Festival, one of the best-known light festivals in the world. His Brocken 6 A was part of the 2017 exhibition while Aftereal, a large installation in the public space reflecting the artist’s fascination of using light for the physical and sensory perceptio...
The Royal Academy of Arts artistic director Tim Marlow has described Emin as “one of the most important and influential artists in the world.” The original YBA (Young British Artists) and once the enfant-terrible of the infamous “My Bed” installation, Emin has been using neon as a creative medium for over three decades. What differentiates Emin fro...
Born in Chile in 1972, Chilean sculptor utilizes neons, lights, and infinity mirrors to convey politically-charged messages. Despite having lived in New York since his twenties, Navarro has never quite gotten over his youth spent under the brutal Chilean dictatorship, a time of blackouts, curfews, censorship, and people were kidnapped or arrested, ...
Born in Mexico City in 1967, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer is an electronic artist who intersects architecture and performance art to create interactive installations. Among the numerous and diverse body of works, Lazano-Hemmer describes his light and shadow pieces as “anti-monuments for alien agency.” His Articulate Intersectis a massive installation that ...
Born and raised in California, Mary Weatherford studied visual arts and art history at Princeton University. Her career in art began in the 80s with works focused on painting landscapes. In 2012, she became intrigued by the colored neon signs she’d seen illuminating in old factories and restaurants. She began to carefully shape and incorporate colo...
Keith Sonnier has had a long history with lights. Born in 1941, Sonnier has been working with lights as a medium since 1968. His light art technique includes materials such as neon, fluorescent lights, and reflective materials. In 2004, Sonnier created MOTORDOM, one of Los Angeles’s most significant public installations. The red neon and blue argon...
International Light Art Award finalist Jacqueline Henspecialized in Visual Communication, Spatial and Experience design when she studied at University of the Arts Berlin and Art Center College of Design Pasadena. Hen’s interest in the investigation of light as an artistic material is because of its “transformational potential on the human conscious...
“I’m interested that light has thingness itself, so it’s not something that reveals something about other things you’re looking at, but it becomes a revelation in itself.”– James Turrell Light illuminates and inspires us like no other natural phenomenon, as artists have and continue to harness its forms to create works of art. It has truly come a l...
Lighting plays a huge role for artists and can dramatically effect the mood of an artwork. This video explains the differences between artificial light and natural light in illustrations, paintings, comics, films, animation and more. Examples in art show how natural lighting and artificial lighting create different visual affects, and how that can impact the […]
Jan 28, 2021 · The Light and Space Movement was spearheaded by artists living in Los Angeles in the 1960s. Artists like James Turrell, Eric Orr, Robert Irwin, Mary Corse, and Doug Wheeler worked by directing the flow of natural light, embedding artificial light within objects or architecture, or through playing with light with the use of transparent, translucent, or reflective materials.
