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From the Exhibition catalog:

“A Light Fantastic
Matthew Schreiber’s explorations into the potency of light continue
an artistic tradition that dates back at least to the beginning of the 20thcentury.While light in
a representational form has served as a beguiling muse for centuries now,this elusive yet
utterly familiar material was not freed from its depictional status until a handful of artists in
the early 1920s,including Mary Hallock Greenewalt and Thomas Wilfred,fused color and
luminescence in mechanical constructions that presented light as an artistic medium in and
of itself.Minimalism and the Light and Space work that emerged from Southern California in
the 1960s further explored the potential of light.James Turrell,Robert Irwin,and Dan Flavin,
among many others,exploited it as a pure substance for investigations into the perceptual
principles embodied by Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s phenomenological theories.More recently,
Olafur Eliasson and Spencer Finch have used both natural and artificial light to examine
subjectivity in an age conditioned by simulation and Guy Debord’s concept of the spectacle.”

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