March 19, 2010 - May 2, 2010
"Ray Howlett" Self-portrait, 1997.
Taken with dichroic glass light sculpture.
The Dane G. Hansen Museum is pleased to announce "Dichroic Glass Light Sculptures by Ray Howlett". This exhibit will be on display March 19, 2010 through May 2, 2010.
Ray Howlett, from Lincoln, Nebraska, started making mixed media constructions with mirrors and electric light to engage extended depth with "light and space," in 1973. He became the first post "California light and space" artist working in optical sculpture.
Ray invented the "mixed media light mandala art," in 1975. These are interactive light mandalas and 4D art. He became devoted to dichroic art in 1979.
He invented the "dichroic glass light sculptures," in 1981. These are mixed media sculptures with dichroic glass art, technology, science and 4D sculpture.
In 2007, he founded the "Museum of Dichroic Art."
In my artwork, seeing is not believing or knowing. Initially my work strongly engages perception from the
viewer. That quickly yields to giving their cognitive understanding a jolt. My art does something that most
art does not do; it separates perception from cognition and allows for a transcendental experience to
dominate. We are left with a visual mystery that our eyes cannot believe. My work is more about visual
experience than perception or understanding.
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