Len Lye Interview

Len Lye

1965

Description

On the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Howard Wise Gallery in 1965, experimental filmmaker and artist Len Lye (1901-1980) discusses his work The Loop (1964) in the following interview. Producing his most widely recognized work in kinetic art after moving to New York in the 1940s, Lye intently pursued the translation of movement into artistic form. The following excerpt is from the Howard Wise Gallery Archives, 16mm, color, sound.