Andrew Lyght, Full Circle
Until April 10, 2016
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
SUNY New Paltz 1 Hawk Drive, New Paltz, NY 1256
Porthole Sheathing, 1998-2001.
About:
Full Circle is a venture into the departures, encounters, discoveries, and transgressions that inform Andrew Lyght’s artistic practice and life. While living and working for decades in various cultural contexts such as Guyana, Canada, and the United States, Lyght has pursued an extensive inquiry into the mechanics of art making.
Lyght Flight Kite Linear Dimensions, 1976.
Curated by Tumelo Mosaka, Andrew Lyght: Full Circle is the artist’s first museum exhibition since he moved to Kingston, NY in 2006. Best known for his flexible and volumetric forms, vibrant paintings, and abstract linear drawings, Lyght creates a wide range of works that analyze the structural properties of painting and reanimate pictorial space as an open system. Over the many years he has developed an art form that explores the built environment as a dynamic pictorial subject, introducing new ways of seeing the world around us.(text museum)
Industrial Painting Sheathing 0516JC, 1993–1994.
Statement:
Growing up by the sea in Guyana, South America, I often wondered what happened where water and sky meet at the horizon line, creating a sense of limitless distance. To this day, I remain intrigued by this enigmatic phenomenon and its resemblance to pictorial space. It is this fascination that has driven my visual inquiry and practice for more than forty years. During that time, I have physically deconstructed, altered, and reconstructed the picture plane, the frame, and the compositional elements within that frame to better understand and communicate the dynamic nature of pictorial space. I have grappled with the spatial significance of line, plane, volume, and color, placing the viewer within that pictorial space. Each new body of work has explored the limits of the eye by creating an art form that appears to have no fixed boundaries. – See more at: http://arcthemagazine.com/arc/2013/11/andrew-lyght/#sthash.nrSucoav.dpuf
Air Rights NY Lyght 6136, 2009–10.
Courtesy: the artist