Resonance of Light

$24 members/$34 Not-yet members

In-person at the Burchfield Penney Art Center

How do we respond to light? Different light sources evoke an array of emotions depending on the shape, color, and intensity of the light. In this session, participants will experience light in works of art and investigate the phenomenological response to light. Participants will explore how light resonates emotion through the senses and create new ways of creating gestures in response to light.

Eclectric Oil and Light, Burchfield Palette, 2022, LED lights, reflectors, corrugated plastic, & metal, Image courtesy of the artists

Sessions will reference artworks in the Burchfield Penney Art Center galleries.

Participants:

Participants are encouraged to bring a sketchbook/journal and a pencil (no pens) to the sessions. 

Registration Form: Please fill out form and email it to shirokkg@buffalostate.edu

For further information and to register for the series contact Kathy G. Shiroki at shirokkg@buffalostate.edu or 716.878.3549.

The Innovative Team: Claudia Carballada, Nancy Hughes, and Carlie Todoro-Rickus

Carlie Todoro-Rickus

Carlie Todoro-Rickus is a visual artist who works primarily in light. Her work is most often site-specific installation where architecture and space inform the work. With a background in visual arts and performance, her work also appears in contemporary and experimental dance and theatre. Her art has twice represented the United States at the Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and Space for work at Silo City for Torn Space Theatre. Carlie is also the visual artist in residence at the John R. Oishei Children’s Hospital where she engages patients and families in exploring the creative process and making art. She is one half of the art collective Eclectric Oil and Light (EOL) with a partner, John Rickus. Their installation, Burchfield Palette 2020, is currently installed in the north window of the BPAC and can be seen at dusk. EOL’s work can be viewed at eclectriclight.com

Claudia Carballada

Claudia Carballada is a visual artist with a studio practice rooted in drawing and painting, extending to installation and performance. The impetus of her work comes from the exploration of emotive and intuitive mark-making as it aligns with the vibration of color, all represented through gestural abstraction. Claudia is Creative Director for The Discovery Project, an ensemble based in Los Angeles which produces multimedia installations for performances based in music. Together with this team, she creates concepts, maintains the role of scenographer, and engages in performance with live painting and drawing. She has guest lectured in figure painting and taught drawing, painting, and figure drawing at many universities and community organizations. She has coordinated gesture drawing/dance workshops and gallery performances as well as exhibited her work in numerous exhibitions. See more of her work at claudiacarballada.com

Nancy Hughes

Nancy Hughes is an educator, performer, choreographer, and event organizer. Her work has been performed across the United States and in France. Most recently Nancy has performed in work by JoAnna Mendl-Shaw, Paul Matteson, and Daystar Dance while choreographing for musicals including The Full Monty. She has received grants from NYS DanceForce, Northampton Arts Council, and Arts Services Initiative (ASI). Throughout the year Nancy produces events like Mission Improvable: Contact Improvisation (CI) Intensive and the Elmwood Avenue Festival of the Arts (EVFA) Youth Performance Workshop. She has taught CI as an adjunct professor in SUNY Brockport‘s department of dance and teaches at Taylor’s Academy of Ballet. Residing in Buffalo, NY she performs in museums, homes, and silos. @centerdanceny, @missionimprovableci, https://www.facebook.com/centerdancebuffalo/