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LIGHT BEING

A COLLABORATIVE ART INSTALLATION

FEBRUARY 4 - 28
Opening Reception: 
FEBRUARY 13, 5-8pm



Elizabeth Stone, Rosalyn Driscoll, and Tori Lawrence celebrate light in the darkest time of the year.


This collaborative installation by three artists—visual artist Elizabeth Stone, sculptor Rosalyn Driscoll, and filmmaker Tori Lawrence—explores the seasonal movement between darkness and light in a display that transforms the gallery into a luminous, maze-like environment. Veils of translucent fabrics lead visitors through a space inhabited by sculptures, lighting effects, and videos. Different kinds of illumination radiate, flicker, and pulse from various sources—outside ambient light; theatrical lighting; video projections; light within the artworks. The exhibition takes visitors on a journey through conditions that change over the course of the day and the month, reflecting the seasonal transition from winter to spring. We invite visitors to return to experience these shifts of light and to participate in programs (schedule to be announced).   

Contesting the scientific conception of matter—including bodies—as merely physical and material, Light Being de-materializes matter and bodies with light, offering other ways of conceiving the world and ourselves. It leads visitors toward a transcendent feeling of illumination and warmth in a cold, dark time. People moving through the installation become light beings themselves. 

The three artists center the experience of the body in their work. In this collaboration they focus on people’s bodily experience of light. Their artistic approaches complement each other: Driscoll uses light to transform her sculptures; Stone creates abstract luminous beings in a range of media; and Lawrence choreographs and films bodies moving in space.  





ROSALYN DRISCOLL explores the body, sensory perception and natural forces through sculpture, drawing, photography and performance. Years of making tactile sculptures led to her book, The Sensing Body in the Visual Arts (Bloomsbury: 2020). Her work has been exhibited in the US, Europe and Asia and received numerous awards, fellowships and residencies. She lives and works in Williamsburg, MA.  https://rosalyndriscoll.com/  ELIZABETH STONE makes drawings, paintings, prints, and sculptures of the human body. Stone's current work is a luminescent abstraction of the body. She has exhibited and curated in academic institutions, museums, and galleries regionally and nationally. Her work is in private and public collections. For the past two decades Stone has advocated for the work of artists in Western Massachusetts where she lives and works.  https://www.ehstone.com/  
IG: elizabethstoneart   Originally from Atlanta, TORI LAWRENCE is a Western Massachusetts-based choreographer/dancer/filmmaker who creates site-specific multimedia performances and dance films. She has been a guest professor in dance at Bennington College, Smith College, Middlebury College, University of Kansas, and is currently teaching at Keene State College. Tori received her MFA in Dance from the University of Iowa, where she was a recipient of the Iowa Arts Fellowship, and her BA from Franklin & Marshall College. Her site-specific performances and films have been awarded artist residencies in Norway at Lademoen Kunstnerverksteder and USF Verftet, Yaddo, Djerassi, Playa, Brunakra, Chez Bushwick, Ucross Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation, Dance Ireland, and Budapest's Workshop Foundation. She danced and collaborated with choreographer Sara Shelton Mann from 2020-22 with performances throughout San Francisco and Berlin. Tori is also the co-founder of Atland Residency, a new artist retreat space in the hilltowns of Western MA:  atlandresidency.org  https://www.torilawrence.org/ . 

A.P.E.'s programming is made possible in part by sustained support from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and The Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts.