[Panel]: "WATTS PER LUMEN": A CONVERSATION ON THE SOCIAL AND SENSORY PERCEPTIONS THAT LIGHT MEDIATES, May 20th from 6-8pm, Fuller Building, Kingston, NY.
Wed May 20, 2026 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
The Fuller Building, Kingston, NY.
With artists Glenn Ligon, Rob Pruitt, LJ Roberts, and Erika deVries, Lite Brite Neon Studio Co-Director matteline deVries-dilling, and Dorsky Museum Curator Sophie Landres
As an object of study, light is hard to see. Ambivalently, it is both a particle with no mass and the fastest wave in the universe. As a material, it occupies great expanses of space yet presents itself as mere surface or void. This conversation considers how we nevertheless orient ourselves according to the information and misinformation that light carries.
Several artists from the Dorsky Museum’s "Watts per Lumen" exhibition join the exhibition’s curator and a neon art fabricator to unpack the implications of light’s diversiform—its combined state as material, media, effect, and energy. How can art practices help us understand its optics along with the highly charged informatic properties that direct embodied vision? What might the study and representation of light teach us about the social and sensory perceptions that it mediates?
Co-hosted by Chronogram, The Dorsky Museum of Art, and Lite Brite Neon Studio.
