Mary Lucier

Exploring light and landscape as agents of visual perception and memory, Mary Lucier examines 19th-century art historical and literary traditions through the lens of technology. In elegant "pictorial-narrative" works, she investigates the American pastoral myth in "an ironic dialogue between past and present, mundane and poetic, real and ideal." Lucier's metaphoric use of light evokes transcendence and the sublime. full biography

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Attention, Focus, and Motion

1975, 26 min, b&w, sound

Bird's Eye

1978, 10 min, b&w, sound

Two Screen Matrix: Air Writing (1974)/Fire Writing (1975)

1979, 18:30 min, b&w, sound

Ohio to Giverny: Memory of Light

1983, 19 min, color, sound

Wintergarden

1984, 11:11 min, color, sound

Amphibian

1985, 10 min, color, sound

Asylum (A Romance)

1986, 11:48 min, color, sound

In the blink of an eye...(amphibian dreams)..."If I could fly I would fly"

1987, 25:11 min, color, sound

MASS: Between a rock and a hard place

1990, 11 min, color, sound

Noah's Raven

1992, 29:03 min, color, sound

Summer, or Grief

1998, 7:30 min, color, sound

Portrait: John Lado Keni

2000, 15 min, color, sound

This Old Man/My Name is Ne-Ne

2002-04, 4:35 min, color, sound

Arabesque

2004, 6:57 min, color, sound

Titles with or about Mary Lucier

Mary Lucier: Video Installations (Wilderness)

1990, 27:20 min, color, sound