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
1983, 19 min, b&w, sound
1987, 25:11 min, color, sound
2001, 56:30 min, b&w, sound
Attention, Focus, and Motion
1975, 26 min, b&w, sound
Two Screen Matrix: Air Writing (1974)/Fire Writing (1975)
1979, 18:30 min, b&w, sound
Bird's Eye
1978, 10 min, b&w, sound
2001, 53 min, color, 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
2001, 60 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
2002-04, 4:35 min, color, sound
2004, 6:57 min, color, sound
1990, 27:20 min, color, sound