ARCHIVAL PIGMENT PRINTS

A wide selection of framed and unframed prints are available in the gallery — price range $4,800 to $100. Optical Devices (see below) are priced from $125–250 and can be purchased with or without handmade stands.

Elaine Buckholtz

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. 

OPTICAL DEVICES FOR MANIPULATING LIGHT

The COSMOS Gallery exhibition introduces Buckholtz’s new optical devices designed for viewers to manually manipulate the light in their environment.

Through handheld lenses, faceted glass orbs, and shifting light, the viewer is invited to create their own optical adventure – an exploration of mediated sight, wonder, and the luminous space shared between observer and world. 

A collaborative invention, the optical devices were conceived and designed by Buckholtz and fabricated and engineered by Sam Webb. He is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans from intimate, handheld optical devices to expansive, immersive installations. The wooden handles and holders are all handmade.