Light Installations

Doug Aitken Plateau, 2002 Duratrans in lighbox 52 x 122 x 14 inches Collection Martin Z. Margulies Doug Aitken, Martin Boyce, Stephen Dean, Dan Flavin, Mark Handforth, Jacqueline Humphries, Iván Navarro, George Osodi, Tony Oursler, Jason Rhoades, Jennifer Steinkamp, Leo Villareal Our Light Installations exhibitions feature 12 artists utilizing industrial fluorescent light, projections, LED tubes and circuitry. A pioneer of making art with industrial fluorescent light tubes, Dan Flavin is featured with his traditional multicolored grid of light in Untitled (A tribute to Harold Joachim 2) (1977). As curator Jeffery Weiss has noted, Flavin’s light works are neither painting nor sculpture, but both. By pulling the optical nature of color and light from painting and using light to create the spatial aspects of sculpture, Flavin transforms his works into an immersive experience. The exhibition also includes Column 6 (2005), a large-scale Leo Villareal wall piece that uses light sequencing which mimics patterns and forms of nature. Villareal has had large installations along the Bay Bridge in San Francisco and outside institutions such as MoMA PS1, New York and the Figge Art Museum in D

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