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Elizabeth Leach Gallery is pleased to continue Sculpted Light, a group exhibition featuring five artists, commencing the gallery’s 45th anniversary year. Inspired by Elizabeth Leach’s close ties to the Light and Space Movement of the 1970s, Sculpted Light brings together the work of Dan Flavin, Peter Gronquist, Fabiola Menchelli, Gregg Renfrow, and Hap Tivey. Across generations and through various techniques, these artists demonstrate how light can be shaped, contained, reflected and dispersed, serving simultaneously as medium and subject.
The exhibition emphasizes the sculptural nature of light-based practices, presenting illumination-activated works for which light defines forms and shapes perceptions. Whether through fluorescent tubes, photographic processes, or experimental constructions, each artist engages light as a physical and conceptual medium.
Learn more about Sculpted Light here.
Dan Flavin pursued his artistic studies in the late 1950s at Columbia University and the New School. By 1961, he had abandoned his early assemblages of found objects and begun his signature work: sculptural installations made from fluorescent light bulbs. Like the work of his fellow Minimalists, Flavin’s art is clean, industrially produced, and serially repeating. These qualities were developed in opposition to the gestural expressionist painting dominant in postwar American art. The use of ordinary light bulbs also references the twin modernist obsessions with pure technology and everyday life. By basing his work as much in radiated light as in the bulbs themselves, Flavin set the stage for much of the experience-oriented installation work that continues today. His work can be found in significant international museum collections, including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Kunstmuseum Basel; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent; Tate, United Kingdom; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Peter Gronquist is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Portland, OR. He holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art institute and works in diverse mediums and materials ranging from video and painting to sculpture and site-specific installations in our natural and built environment. Throughout his career, Gronquist has employed aluminum, ceramic, paint, fabric, mirrors, basic lumber, led lighting systems, virtual and augmented reality to challenge reductive notions of the traditional and modern. He has exhibited his work in the Pacific Northwest as well as New York, Miami, Los Angeles, and Paris, France and is included in collections such as the Jordan Schnitzer Collection (Portland, OR), Perez Art Museum (Miami, FL), and many private collections worldwide.
Fabiola Menchelli received her MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and holds a BA in Computer Mediated Art from Victoria University, Melbourne. She has participated in international exhibitions across Mexico, the United States, Canada, UK, Sweden, Australia and UAE. She has been invited to significant artist residencies including Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Casa Wabi and more recently Casa Nano in Japan. In 2014, she was awarded the Acquisition Prize for the XVI National Biennale of Photography from Centro de la Image Museum in México and in 2018 was included in the JP Morgan Chase Art Collection presentation at Paris Photo.
Gregg Renfrow is a California Bay Area artist who explores light in his abstract paintings. Renfrow’s practice is linked to the Light and Space Movement of the 1970s and expands its tradition through his singular, painterly exploration. Renfrow received his BFA from San Francisco Art Institute and has exhibited both nationally and internationally since the mid 1970’s. His work is in a series of public and private collections including the Oakland Museum of California (Oakland, CA), the Norton Museum of Art (Palm Beach, FL) and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (San Francisco, CA).
Hap Tivey was born in 1947 in Portland, OR. He received his BA from Pomona College in 1969 and his MFA from Claremont Graduate School in 1973. Tivey's work draws from an eclectic base of study that ranges from mathematics and hard science to years of Japanese Buddhist study and monastery retreat. He has had solo exhibitions at Blum Helman and Diane Brown in New York, NY, Elizabeth Leach Gallery in Portland, OR, Landau-Alexander and Margo Leavin in Los Angeles, CA, and the Picasso Studio in Paris, France. Tivey's work is included in numerous museum collections as well as private and corporate collections including the DeMenil Collection, Houston, Texas; The DIA Foundation, New York, New York; The Guggenheim Museum in both New York, New York and Bilbao, Spain; Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York and P.S.1, New York, New York.
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