Michael Light
Overview
Michael Light is a San Francisco-based photographer and bookmaker focused on the environment and how contemporary American culture relates to it. His work is concerned both with the politics of that relationship and the seductions of landscape representation. He has exhibited extensively nationally and internationally, and his work has been collected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Getty Research Library, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The New York Public Library, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, among others. For the last fifteen years, Light’s aerial photography has focused on both settled and unsettled areas of American space, pursuing themes of mapping, vertigo, human impact on the land, and various aspects of geologic time. Atlas Gallery is the exclusive representative of Michael Light in the UK.
Featured Exhibitions
Westwood and Wilshire Looking North, UCLA Beyond, Los Angeles, CA; 2016
Archival pigment print
Solano Canyon Community Looking Northwest, Dodger Stadium at Left, Los Angeles, CA; 2016
Archival pigment print
I-5, 60 and Soto Street, Looking Northeast at Dusk, CA, 2004
Archival pigment print
Bursage Loop trail looking northwest, “Del Webb Anthem” homes beyond, Henderson, Nevada; 2010, 2015
Archival pigment print
City View hiking trail looking southeast, unbuilt “Ascaya” lots and Black Mountain beyond, Henderson, Nevada; 2010, 2015
Archival pigment print
Unbuilt “Ascaya” lots and cul de sac looking south, afternoon, Black Mountain beyond, Henderson, Nevada; 2012
Archival pigment print
Looking southwest over unbuilt “Ascaya” lots, Henderson, Nevada; 2012
Archival pigment print
Edge of unbuilt “Ascaya” development looking east; foreclosed “Obsidian Mountain” development at left, Henderson, Nevada; 2011
Archival pigment print
“Roma Hills” homes and foreclosed “Obsidian Mountain” development, “Ascaya” lots beyond, looking south, Henderson, Nevada; 2012
Archival pigment print
Looking Northwest, Somewhere Near Torrance, CA, 2004
Archival pigment print
Hollywood and Sunset Looking East, Los Angeles, CA, 2016
Archival pigment print
Untitled/Hollywood, 2005
Archival pigment print
Untitled/Downtown Dusk, 2005
Archival pigment print
LA Day: 02.12.04
Hand-made photobook of 17 aerial images, Edition 6/8
LA Night: 07.27.05
Hand-made book of 13 aerial images (B&W), Edition 8/10
LA Night: 09.10.16
Studio-made book of 18 aerial images (colour), Edition 3/10