Harnessing Light: Marietta Patricia Leis, Debbie Long, & Mary Shaffer

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Aug 4 2018 - Oct 7 2018

Harnessing Light features three artists who by different paths converge on a common focus: the interface of light on a surface. Each artist—Marietta Patricia Leis, Debbie Long, and Mary Shaffer—creates works that share the viewers’ immediate space and directly engage them with luminous visual effects. Leis’s graphite acrylic panels, from her series Lost and Found In Iceland, capture light’s tenebrous illumination of consummate darkness. The light that saturates Debbie Long’s translucent cast-glass sculptures belies their physical mass with the same sleight of hand that transforms Mary Shaffer’s rigid clear cast coils into lithe and pliant crystal creatures.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.         

  • Various Media
  • International
  • Contemporary
  • Marietta Patricia Leis
  • Debbie Long
  • Mary Shaffer

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