Elaine Buckholtz

Spectacle invites viewers into a visual experience of discovery, where handmade optical devices and altered images transform what we see. Through lenses, frames, and shifting light, the viewer creates their own visions – an exploration of mediated sight, wonder, and the luminous space shared between observer and world.

Elaine Buckholtz is a Light Installation Artist operating in the space between installation, architecture and landscape with interests in physical and metaphorical transformation, biotechnology, and the technologically sublime. Her work transforms environments and sites by activating architectural forms and spaces with moving light, sculptural elements and sound. 

With a 25-year career in Lighting Design, working with artists such as Meredith Monk and Merce Cunningham, she brings a long history and depth of understanding to her light-based practice.  

Buckholtz has shown work in national and international venues and is currently a professor at The Massachusetts College of Art and Design in The Studio for Interrelated Media. 

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