C. DUTCH
Light Alchemy
FEB 2 - 25, 2024
Artist reception:  Friday, Feb 2, 4 - 7 pm

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