Elyse Mallouk
Since I was writing about the importance of light in gothic architecture, it seems one of the current MFA students at the California College of the Arts, Elyse Mallouk is undertaking such a project.
Her pieces emphasizes, it seems, on the movement of light through space, and without the help of colored glass windows. From the way her installations are described (some videos can be seen on her website), the trajectories of light is faked by their collision against a surface of mylar, which gives the colors somewhat of a matte, smoky quality. But the rays actually come into being in those installations, rather than light amplifying the colors of glass through diffraction (when looking at a rose window, what we see is rather the window itself rather than the light passing through it. Descartes, among other things, wrote the optics law on how light interacts with surfaces) And because the mylar used is rather colorless (the colors are modulated directly from the projector, those rays can collide with each other, as opposed to the more static (relatively speaking) setting of colored glass windows. It thus allows different "surface" effect as colors mix together.
Well, I haven't seen the thing yet. Elyse has a show tonight at the Climate Theater/Gallery 9, 285 9th Street (at Folsom) in San Francisco, starting at 8.
Oh, and for some reason, her work also reminds me of the work of another local painter, Amy Trachtenberg.
Her pieces emphasizes, it seems, on the movement of light through space, and without the help of colored glass windows. From the way her installations are described (some videos can be seen on her website), the trajectories of light is faked by their collision against a surface of mylar, which gives the colors somewhat of a matte, smoky quality. But the rays actually come into being in those installations, rather than light amplifying the colors of glass through diffraction (when looking at a rose window, what we see is rather the window itself rather than the light passing through it. Descartes, among other things, wrote the optics law on how light interacts with surfaces) And because the mylar used is rather colorless (the colors are modulated directly from the projector, those rays can collide with each other, as opposed to the more static (relatively speaking) setting of colored glass windows. It thus allows different "surface" effect as colors mix together.
Well, I haven't seen the thing yet. Elyse has a show tonight at the Climate Theater/Gallery 9, 285 9th Street (at Folsom) in San Francisco, starting at 8.
Oh, and for some reason, her work also reminds me of the work of another local painter, Amy Trachtenberg.
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