Multidisciplinary artists JenMarie Landig and Maha Bazzari present Light Made Visible, a new mixed-media exhibition. JenMarie’s photography and Maha’s paintings come together to create contrast, lines, and form using the camera lens and paint brush. These elements mirror the rhythm of the day, from sunrise to sunset, tracing lines that move between sharp and distinct to gradually blurring and fading. These lines are also dynamic as they interact with the built environment —architecture, and its abstractions— creating the visual interplay at the center of Light Made Visible. 

Whether the subject of the artworks is architectural, figurative, or abstract in form, the contrast of light and dark performs as the emerging and dissolving of the life cycle itself. Not only do the presented works demonstrate the design and history of buildings together with figures and abstracted features, but they also situate buildings as sites of life. From color to shadow to cessation, this exhibition explores the emerging, the solid middle, and the end. These cycles are constant and yet transient as they emerge, move, and disappear only to begin again.  

To see color, lines, and forms we must first have light. The images in this exhibition also celebrate how color and form reveal themselves as light becomes visible. We encourage the viewer to ask themselves: What places, colors, structures, and forms hold meaning for you?  As light inevitably fades and creates shadows, what remains? The promise of new color and forms? No matter where we find ourselves within the cycle of light and shadow, of color and darkness, these elements endure.

Light Made Visible speaks to how the appearance of forms, contrasts, and lines–just like life itself–is at times close, bright, and clear and other times far and fading. Ultimately, Light Made Visible invites us to reflect on how life and its many forms are in constant motion, shaping our perception, memory, and inner states of being.