Light Art
by Deanne Sabeck
Conceptually my work deals with illusion, perception and the essence of our visual reality, LIGHT. Within this context, I explore both the dark and light aspects of life. Using glass as my main medium, I create spatial sculptures with light. The glass is bent, fractured and often etched with text and imagery, distorting and refracting the light spectrum, bathing the environment in brilliant color and form.
I find it particularly fascinating to work directly with light. Even a slight change in an angle produces drastic results in the projected form, color and imagery. Additionally, the use of a computerized light dimming system adds a kinetic aspect to an installation by offering a constant, yet subtle transformation of the meditative patterns of light. Outdoor installations use the sun as the light source which transforms the piece continually throughout the day.
I see my work as a metaphor for our personal perceptions of reality which appear quite differently when seen from another perspective.
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On Deanne’s work by Debra Poteet, art collector and committee member on San Diego Art Prize
How do you capture the capricious beauty of that chimera the aurora borealis, shimmering and dancing across the night sky to its own celestial rhythm? Or bottle a rainbow and then put its glimmering hues onto a canvas? Deanne Sabeck, like the alchemist of old, has found a way to make the lyrical mysteries of reflected light in the heavens yield to her skilled hand. Her canvas is any surface and her paint is light reflected off of precisely hewn and treated glass, carefully aligned with sources of light. Sabeck’s pieces both delight and amaze the viewer at once and just like the Northern Lights, when the light goes off, now you see it, now you don’t! The constant state of awe and surprise that Deanne’s pieces elicit, as a collector, keep me coming back for more and is the reason I nominated her.
Art Prize Notes by Betsy Lane Art on Deanne Sabeck
Deanne Sabeck continues breaking, bending, slumping, fusing, reflecting, stretching and casting her glass net across wider and wider territories. There are no limits for this prolific woman who engages in the pursuit of dreams. For more than thirty years, I have watched the sexy, juicy, lover of man and beast, exert her feminine energy and creativity. Hotels, homes, universities, galleries, libraries, and airports contain the creative manifestations that she is unable to contain. She is the light reflected in the physical world and like that world she continuously evolves and changes. Never afraid to experiment with something new is the underpinning drive the propels Sabeck forward. Congruent, uninhibited, loving engaging and intimate are all words the describe both the woman and her work. As a mother of two daughters, this Encinitas resident has embraced all her loves…yoga, animals, music, art and travel to journey along lines highway. Her most recent endeavor is owner/director of Casa Candelitas, a spectacular, serene art/yoga retreat close to the town of Samara in Costa Rica.