My little sister and I took a trip to the Dayton Art Institute to visit its special exhibit entitled "Into The Ether" and it provided for some great pictures. The Art Institute contains a beautiful permanent collection of art ranging across time periods and mediums but throughout the year a special exhibit will be curated. This showcase focused on lights in a variety of formats. You'll see photos of massive lampshades with changeable colors, all at your choosing and even have you own image projected in star-like projections.
If you have the chance to visit this exhibit you won't regret it, but for now, experience it through some pictures.
The moment I stepped into the exhibit I couldn't help but imagine The 1975 curating the music for it. Check out this track.
Above: Massive painting that stood over 10 feet.
Above: Loving the Monet.
Above: Courtyard Clouds
Above: My favorite painter (if I had one), Edward Hopper. In my high school English class our teacher would put up one of Hopper's paintings and we would have to write a narrative based around that painting.
Above: This is the frame of the Edward Hopper piece. Even the frame is a work of art.
Above: This one made me really dizzy.
"Into the Ether" starts now
Above: These are the customizable colored lampshades.
Above: This piece of art used a camera to sense where you were and it would use its 791 motors to turn these copper bars so that they reflected the light and made an image. So if you stood in front of this hexagon it would show the outline of your body just by refracting light. Crazy.
Above & Below: This set of lights never projected the same arrangement of colors. This is my excuse for having a ton of photos of it.
Above: Some built a hologram of two ovals. Not sure how you do that.
Above & Below: If you stood against a wall, the stars would move to project your likeness on the screen.
Above: Here's the copper motor work and if you look to the right of my sister you will see some lighter circles and that is actually me holding my camera up to take the photo.
Above & Below: She did a lot of posing in front of lights and paintings for me.
Thanks for following along. Check out the exhibit and museum if you can.