C. DUTCH • NEW LIGHT SCULPTURE
FEB 3 - 24, 2023
Artist reception:  Friday, Feb 3, 4 - 7 pm

PALM DESERT, CA – (January 25, 2023) – Art Lovers are cordially invited to meet the artist, C. Dutch, at the opening reception for his solo exhibition at CODA Gallery on Friday, Feb 3, 4-7 pm, during Palm Desert’s First Friday Art Walk. The exhibition continues through February 23, 2023.

C. Dutch has spent his life exploring and experimenting with light. A graduate of Pasadena's ArtCenter College of Design, he has received numerous awards and acknowledgments for his photographic achievements. Using handmade optics, polymer films, acrylic, and resin, his most recent works hover between painting and sculpture.

Inside each Lucite box composition, light is shaped, bent, and sculpted as if a solid, then blended, merged, and projected, creating an illusion of three dimensionality. Although each piece appears to be a powered lightbox, in reality they collect available light and amplify it back into the environment. The artist’s influences include photographic techniques, optics, and distinctly Southern California art movements such as Light and Space, Finish Fetish aesthetics, and Op art.

Light in a work can express many emotions including strength, sensitivity, awe, wonder, calm, and enlightenment. — C. Dutch

CODA exhibition openings take place during Palm Desert’s Art Walk, a self-guided tour of the various art galleries on El Paseo on the first Friday of the month, November through May, from 4 to 7 pm. A wine bar featuring organic wines and other beverages will benefit Animal Samaritans. A percentage of the evening’s art sales will be donated to support Animal Samaritan’s capital campaign for the construction of their new Pet Adoption & Humane Education Center in Thousand Palms.