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Phillip K. Smith III — Lightworks Installation View
Phillip K. Smith III

Lightworks Installation View

2022

This large scale light installation features geometric forms mounted on gallery walls, their surfaces animated by programmed LED illumination that shifts through continuously choreographed color sequences. The work transforms the architectural interior through its interplay of luminosity and reflection, creating an immersive environment where viewers experience color and light as temporal phenomena rather than static properties. Smith's characteristic engagement with perception and phenomenology is evident in how the installation activates the surrounding space, inviting contemplation of how light shapes our experience of architecture and place. The geometric precision of the forms contrasts with the fluid, ever changing nature of their chromatic composition, embodying the artist's investigation into the relationship between structure and ephemeral experience. Within the institutional gallery context, the work demonstrates how programmed light systems can transform interior environments into spaces of perceptual discovery.

Location
Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI

Notes

Installation view of Lightworks, Library Street Collective, Detroit, 2022.

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Phillip K. Smith III, Lightworks Installation View, 2022

This large scale light installation features geometric forms mounted on gallery walls, their surfaces animated by programmed LED illumination that shifts through continuously choreographed color sequences. The work transforms the architectural interior through its interplay of luminosity and reflection, creating an immersive environment where viewers experience color and light as temporal phenomena rather than static properties. Smith's characteristic engagement with perception and phenomenology is evident in how the installation activates the surrounding space, inviting contemplation of how light shapes our experience of architecture and place. The geometric precision of the forms contrasts with the fluid, ever changing nature of their chromatic composition, embodying the artist's investigation into the relationship between structure and ephemeral experience. Within the institutional gallery context, the work demonstrates how programmed light systems can transform interior environments into spaces of perceptual discovery.

Year
2022
Seen at
Library Street Collective, Detroit, MI

Related themes

Kinetic Light, Reflection, Light Installation, Museum Art, Programmed Color, Geometric Forms, Public Space Art, Time Based Art, LED Sculpture, Immersive Experience, Perception Art, American Artist, Contemporary Sculpture, Phenomenology, Place and Perception, Contemporary Art, Light Art, Color Choreography, Architectural Intervention, Gallery Installation

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Alex Capecelatro, Jonathan Murray, Mihail Lari