Nancy Edelstein
The Shape of Light
August 3 - September 16 , 2023
ARTIST TALK:
Thursday August 24th, 5pm (in person and virtual)
FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK:
August 3rd and September 7th
5:00-8:00pm
ARTIST RECEPTION:
August 5th
12-3pm, with artist remarks at 1:30pm
HOURS:
FRIDAY
Noon-4pm
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
SCHEDULE YOUR FRIDAY VISIT
SATURDAY
Noon-4pm
NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY
Nancy Edelstein’s artistic interests have always been centered around light and space. Trained as a fine art photographer, her attention has been on observing the subtle properties of multiple light sources co-existing within various interior locations. After earning her MFA in 2021, she re-emerged as a three-dimensional interdisciplinary artist with an expanded practice and intent. Recognizing that both her primary material and subject is light, her site-specific work is now an engagement in marking and revealing moments of light moving throughout the lived spaces of our lives.Edelstein’s point of view is built on the recognition of the unseen presence of light everywhere. In an attempt to generate an experience of this, she creates and installs objects within the space, intended to interrupt light’s unseen trajectory, making light visible.
The Shape of Light
August 3 - September 16 , 2023
ARTIST TALK:
Thursday August 24th, 5pm (in person and virtual)
FIRST THURSDAY ART WALK:
August 3rd and September 7th
5:00-8:00pm
ARTIST RECEPTION:
August 5th
12-3pm, with artist remarks at 1:30pm
HOURS:
FRIDAY
Noon-4pm
BY APPOINTMENT ONLY
SCHEDULE YOUR FRIDAY VISIT
SATURDAY
Noon-4pm
NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY
Nancy Edelstein’s artistic interests have always been centered around light and space. Trained as a fine art photographer, her attention has been on observing the subtle properties of multiple light sources co-existing within various interior locations. After earning her MFA in 2021, she re-emerged as a three-dimensional interdisciplinary artist with an expanded practice and intent. Recognizing that both her primary material and subject is light, her site-specific work is now an engagement in marking and revealing moments of light moving throughout the lived spaces of our lives.Edelstein’s point of view is built on the recognition of the unseen presence of light everywhere. In an attempt to generate an experience of this, she creates and installs objects within the space, intended to interrupt light’s unseen trajectory, making light visible.
The Shape of Light is a site-specific installation in response to the fluctuations of light over time. Throughout Method Gallery, the prominent windows contour the shape of streaming light landing on walls, corners, ceilings and floors. Sculptures placed within the space interact with light in fractured moments. Highlight and shadow come into focus, bringing materiality to formlessness, shadow to darkness, and abstraction to nature. This is an interactive installation. It challenges the perception of the viewer with light's erratic forms in response to the uncertainty of weather, time and the changing seasons.
It is also a tribute to the simple moments of light that I have witnessed and recorded. It is an attempt to hold onto the gift of sight and wonder evoked by these crazy waves of particles and energy traveling from so far away, landing inside our homes, and into our lives.
Diverse materials are employed here to express my own experience of light: artist tape, vellum, colored gels, latex rubber tubing, fabricated aluminum, projected imagery, photography. And of course, light.
Supported by the Office of Arts and Culture Seattle, smART ventures Program
It is also a tribute to the simple moments of light that I have witnessed and recorded. It is an attempt to hold onto the gift of sight and wonder evoked by these crazy waves of particles and energy traveling from so far away, landing inside our homes, and into our lives.
Diverse materials are employed here to express my own experience of light: artist tape, vellum, colored gels, latex rubber tubing, fabricated aluminum, projected imagery, photography. And of course, light.
Supported by the Office of Arts and Culture Seattle, smART ventures Program