Arts Design

THE BEAUTIFUL ART OF REFLECTION

Courtesy of Colossal. “Unwoven Light,” Soo Sunny Park.

We’ve collected works from four artists who create incredibly beautiful, unusual reflections.

SOO SUNNY PARK

Reflections in soft candy colors bounce off of artist Soo Sunny Park’s large-scale installation Unwoven Light.

Park attaches hundreds of plexiglass squares to pieces of chain link fence. All was installed recently at the Rice Gallery, in Houston, transforming the plain white walls and ceiling into a reflective light show.

“My work often deals with this idea of liminal space, or interstitial space…there’s this feeling that I’m always looking out, from the inside out. There’s physical reality and the ideal reality, so I’m trying to balance between the two,” Park says.

See more of her work on her website and in this video from Walley Films below.

BING WRIGHT

Sunset reflections are shattered, yet shine through beautifully in Broken Mirror/Evening Sky, a series of images by New York photographer Bing Wright.

Printed, wall-size, they look like stained glass window, delicately tinted on each fragmented surface.

See more of Wright’s reflective masterpieces on his site.

Dutch artist Suzan Drummen‘s large scale installations are a playful investigation on illusion, space, and optical effect. From a distance, we see an elaborate and well organized installation of circular patterned mirrors and brightly colored glass.

Upon closer inspection these intricate formations are disorienting. The once tempting and mesmerizing installation seen in the distance, becomes overwhelming at close range, challenging the viewer’s visual perception.

Suzan’s circular formations grow exponentially, kaleidoscopically, as they glide through surfaces, and at times climb walls.

Suzan’s work is composed of materials like crystals, chromed metal, precious stones, mirrors and optical glass. Astonishingly, each element is placed loosely on the floor and viewers are encouraged to interact with her work.

JONTY HURWITZ

Jonty Hurwitz is an artist and an engineer. His passions fuse in his anamorphic sculptures. Anamorphosis is a distorted projection or reflection of an image that, when seen through a mirror, special device, or specific angle, the normal image appears to be restored. The technique dates back to Da Vinci.

He creates them by first scanning 3D objects, then digitally morphing them through billions of computations. Then he fabricates the warped image into sculptures made of perspex, steel, resin, or copper.

The sculptures are then reflected by a mirrored cylinder. And, like magic, the reflections look like the original unwarped subjects.

Check out his website and YouTube to see more of his work.

Read more about Beautiful Reflections, as it relates to Arts/Design, Nature/Science, Food/Drink, Place/Time, Mind/Body, and Soul/Impact including Reflecting It All So Beautifully, Human|Nature: Mutual Reflections, and 10 Beautiful Bowls of Reflections.

Photo Credit:

Photo: Courtesy of Colossal. “Unwoven Light,” Soo Sunny Park.
Photo: Courtesy of 365 Things in Houston. “Unwoven Light,” Soo Sunny Park.
Photo: Courtesy of Colossal. “Unwoven Light,” Soo Sunny Park.
Photo: by Walley Films. Still from Unwoven Light documentary.
Photo: by Walley Films. Still from Unwoven Light documentary.
Photo: by Bing Wright. Photo from Broken Mirror/Evening Sky series.
Photo: by Bing Wright. Photo from Broken Mirror/Evening Sky series.
Photo: by Bing Wright. Photo from Broken Mirror/Evening Sky series.
Photo: Courtesy of Suzan Drummen. 2012 Installation Amstelveen.
Photo: Courtesy of Suzan Drummen. Installation in Gallery Maurits van de Laar Herderstraat 6 The Hague.
Photo: Courtesy of Suzan Drummen. 2012 Installation 2 Museum Valkhof.
Photo: by Jonty Hurwitz. “Rejuvenation.”
Photo: by Jonty Hurwitz.
Photo: by Jonty Hurwitz.