It isn’t the how that draws you in. Even if these color-saturated, luminous sculptures do boggle the brain – there is something beyond how that challenges our perception, pulls us in, makes us step closer, look deeper. Each small, seven-inch sphere calls us to fall into it, to see something more that must be hidden within its deep colors, while the darkly lit and rippled square wall pieces offer impossible windows which seem to glow from within.
As a key member of the Light & Space movement, Helen Pashgian’s sculpture explores the possibilities of light, color and volume, using materials from cutting edge technology. But perhaps it is Pashgian’s early experiences on the shores of the Pacific in California, exploring tide pools filled with strange and colorful creatures, rippling with cast light and shadow, that was the more foundational influence. Here were worlds of color and volume, light and movement. Here was something that flickered just on the edge of knowing.
The resulting sculptures of Pashgian’s ex
