Petra Bachmaier & Sean Gallero | Luftwerk Studio

❑ Colorspace 1 Colorspace 2 Colorspace 3 ❒ Three cubes made of tinted hues of glass invite viewers to perceive a multitude of color overlaps and mixes and create a sensation of a dynamic and ever-shifting visual experience. The artwork centers on the dynamic interplay of light and material, specifically the phenomenon of reflective color mixing. This is achieved within the precise, crystalline confines of a transparent glass cube. ❏ The cube serves as both a container for and a participant in the optical process. As light, projected or naturally occurring, enters the cube, its various color components are dispersed and then intricately reflected off the internal glass surfaces. This multi-layered reflection causes the colors to overlap, blend, and remix in real-time, creating a luminous, ever-changing spectrum that appears to exist within the volume of the glass itself. The physical properties of the glass—its clarity, refractive index, and perfectly geometric form—are essential to generating the complex, ethereal color fields. ❐ The resulting visual effect transforms the solid glass volume into a vibrant, immaterial space of pure color and light.

Last week to experience Luftwerk "The Sun Standing Still" Survey Exhibition "Luminous Matter" Salon Installation "when the East of the day meets the West of the night" @secristbeach ◯ “Colours are the deeds and sufferings of light.” - Goethe ◯ Luminous Matter is an exhibition that examines the interdependent and generative relationship between three elemental constituents of visual experience: color, light, and form. Each, in isolation, holds an autonomous aesthetic and conceptual presence; yet, in their convergence, they produce the perceptual and emotional conditions through which we apprehend the world. This exhibition proposes that the meeting point of these three tropes — their overlaps, tensions, and dissolutions — can offer a renewed lens through which to consider the nature of perception itself. @j_tichy @shingofrancis @jamescollinz @larrybellstudio @abearnot @_kate_joyce @kimuchiyama @ruththroat ◯ "当日之东遇见夜之西 / when the East of the day meets the West of the night" places two recordings of the setting and rising of the sun from opposite sides of the Pacific Ocean reflecting one another. Yuge's Zhou was raised in China but traveled to the US to study: the work explores her dual identity developed during the separation from her family, especially under Covid travel bans when she was unable to return to China. @yugezhou ◯ With deep gratitude to @secristbeach @thebeachbill @br_tton @lisasolar17 @michaela.spurr Mica Barrett

| SOLARGRAPH series from the exhibition “The Sun Standing Still” | | @secristbeach - closes March 7, 2026 | | | Inspired by sinusoidal waves that visualize the changing hours of daylight, the work is composed of 24 vertical aluminium flat bars mounted perpendicular to the wall. This three-dimensional installation offers a shifting perception based on the viewer’s movement. | | | | Each bar is painted white on one side and a saturated color on the other. This contrasting treatment creates an optical effect where the saturated color casts a vibrant palette onto the slender white surfaces. From one angle, the abstract lines and color appear stark and bold; from the opposite view, they resolve into a diffused gradient. | | | | | Photos by Mica Barrett | | | | | | #solargraph #colortheory #dawndusk #twilightsunrisesunset | | | | | | |

Artist Walkthrough with Luftwerk and Kate Joyce Saturday, February 21st, 3 - 5 pm 1801 W Hubbard Street Join art historian Giovanni Aloi and exhibiting artists Luftwerk and Kate Joyce in a conversational walkthrough of Luftwerk: The Sun Standing Still and concurrent survey exhibition Luminous Matter. Through exploration of the works, the conversation will interrogate the artist's practice as engaging simultaneously with the built and natural world. Reception with exhibiting artists to follow. ________________ Luftwerk's interest lies in the interaction between the natural and built worlds: their current exhibition meditates on the fleeting perception of light and atmosphere, exploring how color, devoid of literal representation, can evoke emotional and sensory responses. As recently featured in the 2025 @chicagoarchitecturebiennial , Luftwerk’s practice involves engaging with notable modern and contemporary architecture. Luftwerk has completed site-specific interventions within the works of renowned architects, including Mies van de Rohe (Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago; German Pavilion, Barcelona; Farnsworth House, Plano), Bruce Goff (Ford Residence, Aurora), and Frank Lloyd Wright (Fallingwater, Mill Run; Robie House, Chicago). Having photographed architecture throughout her career, Kate Joyce readily recognizes familiar patterns and forms from the built world. In her Space Craft series, featured in the survey exhibition Luminous Matter, Joyce creates "scale-free micro-architectures of light". Photographing optical prisms pushed to fantastical scale in large black and white prints evokes photography's compressed relationship to space. Art historian and curator Giovanni Aloi’s focus lies in the representation of nature and the environment in contemporary art. His recent curatorial project "Materialities" at the Driehaus Museum uncovers the newfound prominence of materiality in art. He asserts that a growing awareness of the world as the result of compounding collaborative processes with other living and non-living actors. @dr.aloi ________________ Luftwerk, Solargraph: Shortest Day, 2025 Aluminum and acrylic paint 24 x 57.25 x 2 inches

Geometry of Light #ArtInstallation in Barcelona @fundaciomies Pavilion, Barcelona Feb 10 — 17, 2019 #ConceptualDesign: @luftwerk in collaboration with @ikergil #Photography:@_Kate_Joyce Sound Design: Oriol Tarragó Support: @grahamfoundation @boschtoolsna and Chuck Thurow

View Monotone Cyan by Luftwerk and more editions available for purchase at https://blog.alfred.edu/iea/iea-editions/ or at the link in our bio. “Exploring, shifting, evolving. Our work harnesses the creative possibilities of nature, data, and the built environment to shift perceptions and create immersive experiences. Highlighting the interplay between light and color, we construct artwork that shapes new understandings and perspectives of our surroundings.” -Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero (Luftwerk) ieaEditions is an invitational endeavor, featuring a selection of artists-in-residence as part of the New Media and Print+New Media Residency Program. All editions are produced in-house with the artist and iea staff, utilizing the extensive printmaking and digital facilities within the School of Art & Design, New York State College of Ceramics, at Alfred University. @alfreduniversity @alfredu_arts @pam.joseph.art @alfredu_nysceramicscollege

this morning there was light, tomorrow morning there will be light, but where is light? Excerpt from the book Night by Etel Adnan ❍ The word Aura entered English via Latin and French, initially describing a gentle breeze, but has since evolved metaphorically to mean a distinctive atmosphere or emanation surrounding something, gaining prominence in spiritualism and general usage from the 19th century onward, and later a popular slang term for a vibe or feeling. ❍ The aura series are spun aluminum rings in concentric circles painted white on the front facing surfaces with saturated pigmented interiors. The colors bounce onto the wall and relate to each other, each palette is informed by Monet’s impressionist color palette. ❍ “The Sun Standing Still” @secristbeach “Luminous Matter” Survey exhibition with @abearnot @larrybellstudio @jamescollinz @shingofrancis @_kate_joyce @ruththroat @j_tichy @kimuchiyama “when the East of the day meets the West of the night” Salon video installation by @yugezhou ❍ Photography by Mica Barrett

❑ “The Sun Standing Still” @secristbeach accompanying survey exhibition “Luminous Matter” with @abearnot @larrybellstudio @jamescollinz @shingofrancis @_kate_joyce @ruththroat @j_tichy @kimuchiyama Salon installation by @yugezhou December 12, 2025 - February 28, 2026 ❒ “Open Frames” is a chapel-like installation of color and light, drawing inspiration from architectural sacred spaces, specifically referencing the window wall of Le Corbusier’s Chapelle Notre-Dame-du-Haute in Ronchamp. The work features a series of 26 paintings, hung salon-style along a large curved wall. The paintings act as windows and employ one-point perspectives, simplified geometric forms, and the interplay of fluorescent paint and light to evoke a dual sense of looking both outward and inward. ❑ The painting as a window was first contextualized in the Renaissance. The frame of an image echoing that of a window through which we see and perceive the world, a mediator between inside and out. ❒ #openframes #ronchamp #flourescentpainting #perspective #uvlight

The Solstice, from the Latin sol ("sun") and sistere ("to stand still"), marks the shortest day and longest night of the year, a turning point from darkness towards light. ❍ Aperture of Twilight: Dusk + Dawn frames a palette that emerges before day and night. Five layers of reverse-painted squares within squares reflect the energy of a specific color, capturing an impression of dawn and dusk in timed hues. The palette for both pieces is based on photographs of twilight along Lake Michigan. A nod to Albers’ Homage to the Square. ❍ Sincere gratitude to Carrie Secrist, Bill Beach, Britton Bertran, Lisa Solar, Mica Barrett, Michaela Spurr and all the collaborators in envisioning The Sun Standing Still with us. ❍ The exhibition is on view through Feb 28, 2026 ❍ #colortheory #albers #solstice #sunstandingstill #squarewithinsquare #aperatureoftwilight #dawndusk

Opening Tonight! Friday, December 12, 5 - 8 pm Luftwerk | The Sun Standing Still + accompanying Survey exhibition Luminous Matter _______________________ ARTIST PANEL DISCUSSION Saturday, December 13, 2 - 4 pm David Raskin will lead a discussion on the power of the fleeting image, the elusive experience, and art that leaves us at a loss. Join solo artists Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero of Luftwerk and survey exhibition artists Andrew Bearnot, Jan Tichy, and Kim Uchiyama, alongside salon artist Yuge Zhou for this insightful conversation. @luftwerk @abearnot @j_tichy @kimuchiyama @yugezhou _______________________ Luftwerk Aperture of Twilight: Dawn, 2025 Aluminum and acrylic paint 5 layers 33 x 33 inches each 8 inch separation between layers 33 x 33 x 74 inches with framework

THE SUN STANDING STILL • December 12, 2025 - February 28, 2026 Opening Reception: Friday, December 12, 5 - 8 pm Panel Discussion: Saturday, December 13, 2 - 4 pm • SECRIST | BEACH 1801 W Hubbard St. Chicago, IL 60622 • We are excited to announce our representation by, and a debut solo presentation at Secrist | Beach. The Sun Standing Still is a collection of new sculptures, wall reliefs, and a site-specific installation investigating the dynamic interplay between sunlight and the Earth’s revolution. • The time before and after daylight, when everything appears muted yet quietly spectacular, reveals a distinct and transitory palette. Capturing the fleeting and subjective perception of light and atmosphere, the works on view in The Sun Standing Still explore how color, devoid of literal representation, can evoke emotional and sensory responses. • Luminous Matter brings together a group of eight artists that formally and conceptually explore the interconnectedness of color, light, and form.  While color, light, and form have historically served as fundamental building blocks of visual art, they also occupy complex theoretical terrain. Goethe’s assertion that “colours are the deeds and sufferings of light” provides an entry point into this dialogue: color emerges not merely as a surface attribute, but as an event — a manifestation of interaction, time, and transformation. Light, meanwhile, becomes both a material and a metaphor, shaping visibility and revealing the interstitial boundaries between presence and absence. Form, often regarded as static or structural, is here treated as fluid and responsive, contingent upon the oscillations of both light and color. • ARTIST PANEL DISCUSSION December 13, 2 - 4 pm Join us with solo artists Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero of Luftwerk and survey exhibition artists Andrew Bearnot, Jan Tichy, and Kim Uchiyama, alongside salon artist Yuge Zhou, as David Raskin leads a discussion on the power of the fleeting image, the elusive experience, and art that leaves us at a loss.

Now representing Luftwerk On the occasion of their first solo exhibition, The Sun Standing Still, opening December 12, SECRIST | BEACH is pleased to announce representation of Luftwerk, an artistic duo of Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero. ​​Luftwerk reimagines the reality of physical space, developing dimensional experiences mined from the creative possibilities of nature, data, and the built environment. Their installations, site-specific interventions, and objects create a tangible exploratory experience, swathed in the simplicity of light, color, and shape. Each project of the duo builds and expands the body of work—the relationships between material and context that inform the experience of space, architecture, and landscape. The work is at once beautifully reflective of its environment and also part of a greater critical understanding of perception and deception at the core of Luftwerk’s practice. Bachmaier and Gallero met in the Performance Art department at The School of the Art Institute in 1999, finding they had a shared interest in light, color, and technology. After many collaborative projects, in 2007, they formally established Luftwerk. Initially focused on temporary interventions using projected video to engage with architectural landmarks, the duo's current work centers on light and color as both material and concept. Luftwerk participated in the 2024 survey exhibition MANIFEST alongside solo exhibition Anne Lindberg: Of all colors with a light installation in the SECRIST | BEACH salon. Their forthcoming solo show will translate their immersive projects into individual objects for presentation. _______________________________ Running concurrently to The Sun Standing Still are multiple projects across Chicago. Luftwerk is participating in the Chicago Architecture Biennial with a light installation in the fourth-floor windows of 840 N. Michigan, titled One Point Perspective Study No. 2, which activates the façade. The duo is included in Hilb’s Day: A Celebration of Light and Movement at the Mies van der Rohe Society at Illinois Institute of Technology, as well as LIT! at Lubeznik Center for the Arts. Photograph by Dayson Roa @d4y5on