Artist’s Reception: Michael Crawford, Works in Light

Artist’s Reception for Houston Artist Michael Crawford, Works in Light, Friday June 16, 5-7pm at Aurelia Gallery, 414 Canyon Road, Santa Fe. Houston based artist Michael Crawford shows his Works in Light Gallery Opening at Aurelia Gallery on Canyon Road. Michael works out of Santa Fe’s Light Foundry Studio, drawing from his compatriots Fred Unterseher and Augie Muth. His artwork explores the interaction of light with natural objects, such as Ethiopian Opal, Sunflower petals, and Tulip Tree leaves from the forest in Splendora.

BIOGRAPHY

Profile: Light touches. It goes in and stays, or bounces off, leaving colors behind. It goes through and twists and bends.
Michael E Crawford is a pioneer in light-in-space, using elemental light — a pure thin beam of one-color light, holographic techniques, and handmade light-sensitive emulsion on glass, to create forms imbued with color, color brought forth from within the light that illuminates each piece.
This work employs holography to record and encircle entire wavefronts of light within the emulsion. In each exposure, the light guides the reflections and refractions off familiar objects to uncover, by the patterns that emerge, insights into their nature, and into how we visually apprehend.

Education: BA in Natural Science, Austin College, emphases on Biophysics & English; postgraduate studies at University of Houston in Future Studies, Austin College in holography, and University of Texas in optics and biochemistry.