Eric Zammitt
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Light Made Solid, Color Made Eternal
There is a moment, standing before an Eric Zammitt sculpture, when the eye loses its bearings in the most pleasurable way imaginable. The work does not simply reflect light or absorb it. It holds light inside itself, suspending it within layers of laminated acrylic like a memory trapped in amber. This quality, at once scientific and deeply poetic, has made Zammitt one of the most quietly essential figures in American sculpture, and in recent years a new generation of collectors and curators has begun to recognize what those closest to the Light and Space movement have long understood: his… Continue reading
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Artists in conversation
Peter Alexander
Alexander worked extensively with cast polyester resin to create luminous, color-saturated sculptures that explored light transmission and transparency, placing him in direct stylistic and material parallel with Zammitt within the California Light and Space movement.
De Wain Valentine
Valentine pioneered the use of large-scale cast polyester resin works that manipulate the passage of light through translucent color, sharing Zammitt's dedication to industrial materials repurposed for perceptual and optical experience.
Larry Bell
Bell's iconic glass cubes and coated surfaces investigate how light interacts with transparent and reflective materials, closely aligning with Zammitt's geometric formal vocabulary and interest in the phenomenology of light and color.
Artists who inspired them
John McCracken
McCracken's sleek resin and fiberglass planks demonstrated how industrial synthetic materials could achieve refined color and surface luminosity, providing an influential model for Zammitt's own resin-based geometric sculptures.
Josef Albers
Albers's systematic investigations into color interaction and optical perception through layered geometric forms offered a foundational conceptual framework that informed Zammitt's approach to embedding and sequencing color within translucent layers.
Robert Irwin
Irwin's early disc paintings and his broader philosophy of perceptual presence directly shaped the intellectual and aesthetic environment of the California Light and Space movement in which Zammitt developed his practice.