Nathaniel Rackowe

Artificial Light features new sculpture and installations by Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, Spencer Finch, Ceal Floyer, Iván Navarro, Nathaniel Rackowe and Douglas Ross. For these artists, actual light – natural and artificial – serves as a means to engage issues of perception, memory, energy and power. Influenced by the pioneers of light sculpture from the 1960s and '70s, including Dan Flavin, James Turrell and Bruce Nauman, these rising artists have expanded the use of light as a sculptural form to address a broad spectrum of concerns. The exhibition's title refers to the fact that electric light will serve as a primary material, but it also refers to themes related to the concept of artifice, such as technology, nature, beauty and mystery.