Light Art Installations use the interplay of light and space to create immersive experiences that challenge perceptions of reality and time. By integrating kinetic sculptures, video projections, and mirrors, these site-specific works provoke thought on themes such as transformation and the nature of experience. Many installations serve as portals to alternate dimensions or illustrate evolving abstract scenes, inviting viewers to engage with the ephemeral qualities of light and the emotional responses they elicit through movement and repetition.
This experiential light art installation explores the intricate interplay between light, shadow, and refraction to create a sensory exploration of time and its fluidity. Mirror Crystal System features a floor-based moving mirror sculpture made up of triangular wood sections sitting on a large reflective Mylar base. The object slowly rotates, reflecting light and the video projection onto the surrounding walls and onto viewers, who can also see themselves in the mirror object. They are not outside the work, becoming a part of the immersive environment. Designed for diverse public audiences, this light artwork aims to offer collective healing on a personal or cosmic level. In 2024, it was featured in the book “Mirror Mirror,” showcasing contemporary artists who utilize mirror reflections as a medium.
“Triadic Tower,” featured in my solo exhibition “Total Internal Reflection” at Cult/Aimee Friberg Gallery in 2016, is an immersive light art installation that invited audiences to engage with the fluidity of time through a sensorial interplay of light, shadow, refraction and reflection. Constructed with wooden triangular sculptures covered in mirrors and suspended kinetic mobiles, the installation created temporal and transforming light apparitions within the space. Enhanced by a video projection using mirrored and digitally modeled triangles in motion, the piece blurred the boundaries between the physical and sensory experiences, allowing viewers to navigate and interact with the transformative environment.
Primary Optic Shift, 15 x 15 x 25 feet, Spring Break Art Fair, Los Angeles, California, 2019. Primary Optic Shift is an immersive light art installation that utilizes the principles of light refraction and reflection to create a dynamic interplay of colors and shadows. Featuring a moving mirror sculpture composed of circular sections on rotating bases, it incorporates red and blue plexiglass, mirror sculptures, and a mylar base to engage viewers in a sensory experience that blurs the boundaries between the artwork and audience. As the sculpture rotates, it projects shifting patterns and colors onto walls and participants, integrating them into the artwork and promoting collective healing through the exploration of time and vibrant interaction with light.
Documentation of my live light art installation and artist talk in the Henry Ford Museum in March of 2024. I shared multiple video works, photography, and documentation of my previous art at the demonstration. The public walked by my installation, which was located in the middle of the museum, for three hours. I displayed mirror objects on a stand in front of the video screen, and the projector light hit the mirrors, creating refractive light apparitions around the museum walls.
“Spherical Shifting”, 2017. Mirror, mylar, chrome, metal, video projection. In the Founders Room of the Walt Disney Hall by Frank Gehry.
“Channeling Tower”, 2011. Dry ice, lights, wood, and video projection. Southern Exposure, San Francisco, California
