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Susan Chorpenning
"Fiat Lux III "
curated by Dangerous Curve
"Fiat Lux" means "Let There be Light." Chorpenning means to light up the darkest days and longest nights of the year. If you've not seen one of Susan Chorpenning's twinkling light window displays, you've not had a true urban winter-wonderland experience! Her last PGLA installation, "Fiat Lux 2," was like a holiday mega-display, with the lights painstakingly intertwined and loaded on until they filled the whole window. From afar, the window seemed to hover in front of its pane of glass. Up close, one's whole field of vision was engulfed. The effect was invigorating exuberance.
"Fiat Lux III" is more subdued than was "Fiat Lux 2," its lights estrained and elegant. It fills the two windows to the left and right of the location's main doorway. The walls behind are painted bright colors with painted blocks attached. Also attached are various light fixtures, such as twinkling globes, mini-lava lamps, colored compact fluorescents, and tiny, twinkling, multicolored lights mounted on frames. Using stretcher bars throughout - but instead of being the structure for paintings, they are the structure for lights - eg. strings of lights wrapped around the stretcher bars, variations on this theme. These "frames" are the most recurrent image in the piece. More subtle it is, but indeed still a beautiful sensory enterprise.
About the Artist
Artist Resume
"Fiat Lux II" December 2006 January 2007 Pasadena Exhibit
Dangerous Curve
1020 E Fourth Place
Los Angeles, CA 90013
213.617.8483
www.DangerousCurve.org
events@dangerouscurve.org
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