LUX
Light and Space Art from the Museum Collection
August 28, 2012 - March 14, 2014
Throughout the 20th century, primarily in the 1960s and 1970s, artists have used light as a medium or subject matter. Several large pieces in this exhibition focus on artists featured in the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions from Los Angeles who are considered to be the leaders of the light and space art movement of the 1970s. The artists in this exhibition bring up philosophical issues about how the brain perceives the world, and these artworks expand the ideas of what materials are actually considered to be art. At the same time, the works installed in LUX create enchanting experiences of color, shadow, and shape that can surely entertain all ages. The exhibition also includes one of the most significant artworks in the museum's collection: a Plexiglas disc installation by Robert Irwin
Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. Utah State University. Logan, Utah.
Photograph by Andrew McAllister.
Selected Works
