These newest Lightworks, presented for the first time at Library Street Collective, re-engage Smith’s earlier Lozenge forms, progressing them through formal manipulations that bend light and space or that combine multiple singular forms into layered compositions of color. Organized around 9 pure geometric forms across a 24’ long x 7’ high x 2’ deep internally lit topography of translucent white acrylic, Aperture created an all encompassing experience in shifting light, bathing viewers in color. From this generative work, Smith developed his more intimate, compressed lit works focusing on two singular forms, the torus and the lozenge. These core forms of the Lightworks series were selected for their lack of corners or intersections, allowing the eye to freely and fluidly move across their surface. Additionally, the concentric reality of the Torus provided a natural focus, while the Lozenges created more linear compositions, as stretched spherical forms. The Lightworks originated when Smith created Aperture during his artist residency in 2010 at the Palm Springs Art Museum. The exhibition will feature Smith’s newest forms in his on-going Lightworks series that draws on ideas of space, form, color, light, shadow, and change. Library Street Collective is pleased to present Lightworks, a solo exhibition of works by Southern California light-based artist Phillip K.
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