Three Exhibitions, Three Mediums, One Subject: Light שלוש תערוכות, שלוש טכניקות, נושא אחד: אור

Three exhibitions. Three mediums. Three good reasons to leave the house this weekend.

July is almost over, and with it three excellent exhibitions that close soon. All three are about light: as material, as metaphor, and as a tool for making an image.

✨ Sabine Marcelis, born in the Netherlands in 1985, is a successful designer known for work that combines resin, glass and light in a way that blurs the line between design, sculpture and functional object.

Phases is her first solo exhibition in the United States, and it grew out of an attempt to capture one of the most elusive moments in nature: the hour before sunset, when the sky shifts shade continuously and light itself seems like a material in motion. The works are a reminder of how far light can go as a raw material in its own right. It is no accident that Salon 94 compared her to artists such as James Turrell, Robert Irwin and Dan Flavin.

📍 Salon 94 Design, New York
📅 Through July 29

🎨 Guimi You is a Korean artist whose exhibition When the Sun Shines Again is dedicated to women who have returned to making art after a long time away 💛. The sun coming back to shine serves her as a metaphor for beginning again, and light appears again and again as a force of renewal and hope.

Her painting language draws on East Asian painting traditions, with forms that are not bounded by clear contour lines and transparent layers that create a sense of depth and delicacy. Alongside that, her paintings carry the influence of Surrealism, a movement characterized by connections between everyday objects and an enigmatic atmosphere. These are paintings that do not ask to impress you immediately. They invite slow looking, in which atmosphere and feeling build gradually.

📍 Lehmann Maupin, New York
📅 Through August 14

📸 Lillian Bassman (1917 to 2012) was among the photographers who most influenced twentieth century fashion photography, but she was never content to document clothes. Instead of emphasizing the details, she blurred them. Through exposures, bleaching, smudging and manual intervention in the darkroom, she created images in which the garment almost dissolves, and what remains is a sense of light, movement and elegance.

The exhibition Lillian Bassman: Bazaar and Beyond follows her path from her years at Harper's Bazaar, one of the most influential fashion magazines in the world, as a designer and art director, through to her emergence as one of the most innovative fashion photographers of her time. Alongside iconic photographs it presents collages, sketches and rare working materials that reveal how she helped shape the visual language of mid century fashion magazines.

📍 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
📅 Through July 26