Lyn Godley: Wondera, 2019, LED's, crystals, dichoric film, mylar, 7" x 6.5" x 1.75"

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Animated light box on rocking base.

Bio:

Lyn Godley began her career working with light in Fine Arts. Since then her work has crossed the borders of interiors, product, furniture, lighting, and jewelry. Her designs, done both individually and as partner of the design team of Godley-Schwan (1984-1998), have been exhibited internationally. Her work is in numerous museum and private collections. In 1998, after the closing of Godley-Schwan, Godley returned to Fine Art with a focus on merging light and art.

"Color, color, color, pattern, and shape" These terms were once used to describe the design work of Godley-Schwan. Those descriptions could also accurately be applied to the independent work of Godley, who for the last two decades has devoted her efforts to an investigation of light as an artistic medium.

Lyn Godley's work is not about a particular style, but rather about an approach driven by an exploration of the qualities that emerge as light is reflected and diffused, as light interacts with materials, and as viewers experience a dialogue with these affects.
This process is grounded in Godley's love of making, which is driven by the tactile quality enjoyed through her manipulation of materials. Although technology plays an important role in Godley's work, she continues to combine that with traditional artistic medium; watercolor, pastel, charcoal, etc. Her sensibilities result in delicate adjustment of medium and materials in response to light as it travels through or is reflected off of their surfaces. This work is made through the animation of LEDs, not computer rendering. This grounding in material studies, extended into electronics and circuitry, is further enriched through her research into the psychological and physiological effects that imagery, light and color have on the viewers.

www.lyngodley.com