ColoriumLaboratorium

Akiyoshi’s illusions pages were recommended by my classmate, Antonias.  There are a lot of fun illusions to explore.

The colorium vendorium is an experiment with color and food packaging.  I wonder what people might choose from a vending machine if all they could choose from was color.  Would they choose based on what their favorite color was or what kind of food they associate with the color of the package? If there was [...]

Airan Kang_02 from julia vallera on Vimeo.
Textule Landscape: Real and Imagined is a show at the Bryce Wolkowitz gallery in Chelsea.  There were several interesting instillations I found inspiring, but one in particular was  a great use of color and light.  Airan Kang built a book shelf filled with books that light up with various [...]

I went to the Andrea Rosen Gallery in Chelsea this weekend to see a show my thesis teacher recommended  called Proposals for a Chromatic Modernism

This tower of glass cubes by Josiah Mcelheny was a fun sculpture to stare at.  Their were only about 5 or 6 different colors of cubes used repeatedly, but the layered [...]

Dan Flavin works with florescent lighting.  He creates sculptures out of tubes of light.  He uses light to change the space his work is in.

Julio Leparc was an argentinian artist that produced a lot of light and color instillations through his life.  User interaction is an important factor in all of his peices.  He created rooms where people could play, test and learn from the sculptures he designed.  He studied a lot of architectural theories along with space and [...]

This color organ was popular in the 60’s.  The lights pulse and change according to sound input.

Elaine Buckholtz is a lighting artist from California builds instillations using color, light, sound and video.