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[Bio]
Louis M. Brill
Lumia has always fascinated me as a window to a fantastical vista of landscapes, destinations and abstract places whose spaces begged to be visited. My efforts as a light artist began in the 1970s as a student-practioner of New York City's high-tech art ghetto embracing the emerging art mediums of the day. I zigzagged between video tech, multi-media, kinetic art and fine art holography.
All these light art ideas and influences stayed with me in my resettlement to San Francisco. Here these ideas took full bloom where I began to develop Lumia as a creative medium for art galleries and lightshow presentations. In developing Lumia art, its light emerged as a paintbrush and canvas allowing me to present Lumia imagery with a very evocative and narrative visual presence.
As an artist, my canvas is a world of photons, of reflection and of refraction, and imagination. It is a place where I massage the light so its forms take shape, and shape takes presence. And its presence begets a narrative giving life to light which becomes a form of visual poetry of things seen and things imagined.
My Lumia art is expressed in many forms, including photographing Lumias as singular images, as light sculptures and building custom sound-activated Lumia light projectors whose animated presence has graced many a screen for"atmospheric lighting," for dance backdrops, theatre lighting and let's not forget that good 'ol occasional rock & roll light show.
With a new approach to showing off Lumia art, I have established the Lumia Vista Art Gallery [http://sacredlumia.com/lumia_vista.html] as an on-line art gallery displaying Lumia images as unique moments in time. In a further effort to share my Lumia art, I published a book on Lumia art; Sacred Destinations and Journeys Along The Way [www.sacredlumia.com]. The resultant Lumias present a series of compelling Rorschach visuals whose lush beauty presents refracted light as its own art form. Gaze once, gaze twice, the Lumia images are never the same with each new look. My goal with Lumia art is to inspire others as the Lumia imagery has inspired me.
Louis M. Brill
Lumia has always fascinated me as a window to a fantastical vista of landscapes, destinations and abstract places whose spaces begged to be visited. My efforts as a light artist began in the 1970s as a student-practioner of New York City's high-tech art ghetto embracing the emerging art mediums of the day. I zigzagged between video tech, multi-media, kinetic art and fine art holography.
All these light art ideas and influences stayed with me in my resettlement to San Francisco. Here these ideas took full bloom where I began to develop Lumia as a creative medium for art galleries and lightshow presentations. In developing Lumia art, its light emerged as a paintbrush and canvas allowing me to present Lumia imagery with a very evocative and narrative visual presence.
As an artist, my canvas is a world of photons, of reflection and of refraction, and imagination. It is a place where I massage the light so its forms take shape, and shape takes presence. And its presence begets a narrative giving life to light which becomes a form of visual poetry of things seen and things imagined.
My Lumia art is expressed in many forms, including photographing Lumias as singular images, as light sculptures and building custom sound-activated Lumia light projectors whose animated presence has graced many a screen for"atmospheric lighting," for dance backdrops, theatre lighting and let's not forget that good 'ol occasional rock & roll light show.
With a new approach to showing off Lumia art, I have established the Lumia Vista Art Gallery [http://sacredlumia.com/lumia_vista.html] as an on-line art gallery displaying Lumia images as unique moments in time. In a further effort to share my Lumia art, I published a book on Lumia art; Sacred Destinations and Journeys Along The Way [www.sacredlumia.com]. The resultant Lumias present a series of compelling Rorschach visuals whose lush beauty presents refracted light as its own art form. Gaze once, gaze twice, the Lumia images are never the same with each new look. My goal with Lumia art is to inspire others as the Lumia imagery has inspired me.