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2021

NEW YORK CITY LIGHTING
INDUSTRY AFTER-HOUR
CREATIVE PURSUITS

NEW YORK CITY LIGHTING
INDUSTRY AFTER-HOUR
CREATIVE PURSUITS

2021

2021

NEW YORK CITY LIGHTING
INDUSTRY AFTER-HOUR
CREATIVE PURSUITS

NEW YORK CITY LIGHTING
INDUSTRY AFTER-HOUR
CREATIVE PURSUITS

2021

2021

BROWSE THE ARTISTS

MEET THE COMMITEE

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RANDY SABEDRA

RS Lighting
IESNYC

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NATHALIE FAUBERT

CBBLD
IESNYC

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FRANCESCA BASTIANINI

Sighte Studio
DLFNY

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ANNA KIM

Entreprise Lighting
IESNYC

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KETRYNA FARES

HLB Lighting Design 
IALDNY

MOONLIGHTING ARTISTS 2021

Lighting is the most powerful and direct emotional driver of the human experience. For me, capturing light is about trying to understand what are the forces that make a space feel a specific way on any given time...

JULIO RAMIREZ

i2Systems

JULIORAMIREZ

The light in nature,
my inspiration and my restoration.

HYO LEE

Syska Hennessy Group

On July 24th, 2021, the Flint Collective NYC presented a guerrilla performance in the streets of the East Village. For one night, the Collective transformed a disregarded sidewalk and otherwise garbage-ridden...

FLINT COLLECTIVE

Flint Collective

HYOLEE
FLINTCOLLECTIVE

My paintings are filled with light. When I get a chance to paint, I'm filled with joy and peace. Hopefully, this feeling carries through from my canvas to my viewers eyes, evoke a sense of happiness and a lifted spirit.

SIRUN MALONEY

Celano Design Inc

SIRUNMALONEY

Works based around stains or marks on a clear white page - so imagine you put your coffee cup down on a surface and it leaves a stain on the page - I use that to create a form which...

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TIM MILTON

Usai

TIMMILTON

Did you ever think: "wow, that landscape from a plan view would make a great rug”? Well, I did. It all started with paying tribute to some of the works of landscape architect, Roberto Burle Marx and later graduating...

WHITLEY MONTAQUE

Moxie Lighting

WHITLEYMONTAQUE

This is a custom-made display font. The fun here was learning the font-making tools, and learning the relationships between letters, letter-shapes, and letter-contrast. And then, making the 'typewriter'...

JESSE COLETTA

Illuminico

JESSECOLETTA

I spent my free time running around my neighborhood on Grand Concourse and nearby streets noticing that graffiti are an essential part of the urban environment whether we like it or not.  This is just a documentation...

NIRA WATTANACHOTE

CBBLD

NIRAWATTANACHOTE

Shot during the “New York State on PAUSE” shutdown, these photographs were taken at the height of the lockdown when traveling from Brooklyn to Manhattan was no longer routine, but a planned journey. Coincidentally...

ALEXANDER ROSSINI

Dot Dash

Images taken with Samsung Galaxy and Canon 6D MK II

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ROBERT A. NADEL

Energy and Lighting Systems Ltd

ALEXANDERROSSINI
ROBERTANADEL

Sketch of London life... waiting for the routemaster.

GRAHAM C. WHITTAKER

Zumtobel Lighting

GRAHAMCWHITTAKER

A project whose goal is to highlight the generation of skater women who are grinding and changing the perspective of the sport in society by expressing the importance of inclusivity, empowerment, and...

ALDO A. TREJO

Circa Lighting

ALDOATREJO

Still images of a projection from an installation using really dirt-cheap Ikea and Amazon LEDs. The installation has sound and scent components.  It was presented as part of the Gowanus Open Studios 2021 in Brooklyn.

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JIM CONTI

JCLD

JIMCONTI

Not speaking a word of English, I came to America as a toddler with my parents and older brother. Uprooted by the Second World War; they had somehow survived in Soviet Asia. I was born in a refugee camp...

JANE L. WECHSLER

Fisher Marantz Stone, Inc

I have a love for streetwear, and I am an enthusiast of Supreme. My art is inspired by the idea of “Bricks”. In the streetwear and resale industry, “Bricks” are often referred to items that are sold and their resale value...

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GARY WONG

BOLD

Asleep in a dream
 

Acrylic on canvas
 

Status: incomplete...but that's OK.
 

MATTEO SECONI

Moxie Lighting

Endurance team for various sports. All welcome! Life is Health - Health is Life
 

Few of us, lighting industries leaders, include in our daily routine endurance training from a variety of sports. We go through our...

LIGHTS ON

MULTIPLE OFFICES

Last year when we were all stuck at home, I started doing long walks around Central Park as exercise. As Spring approached, I noticed more and more people with binoculars always looking up at the trees. Curiosity quickly...

PEIHENG TSAI

PHT Lighting Design

Faith and hope in the midst of aridity. Joshua reaches his hands up to the sky in prayer...
 

A trip to Joshua Tree National State Park on the heels of a somber occasion this past spring was spiritual awakening. A landscape...

CAT HOA

Delta Light US

JANELWECHSLER
GARYWONG
MATTEOSECONI
LIGHTSON
PEIHENGTSAI
CATHOA

Soft pastel and pastel pencil drawin

CLARA POWELL

Cooledge Lighting 

This series of collages explored creating monochromatic compositions using images found from old Architectural Digest magazines. From material samples to light fixtures to full scale buildings, the collages mirror...

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QUINCY DRANE

The SEED

Inspiration: Savoring nature durging COVID isolation

MAUREEN FARRELL

Maureen Farrell Design Associates

Pandemic Hair

A series of little doodles documenting various hairstyles I had during the pandemic. In a time where “going out” became less frequent, it became easy to fall into a monotony...

DEANNA VALCOUR

Fisher Marantz Stone

My moonlighting passion is photography. Unfortunately, finding the time to use my SLR camera, processing the film, and then developing prints has been a challenge.

For the past few years my iPhone has become...

RANDY SABEDRA

RS Lighting Design

CLARAPOWELL
QUINCYDRANE
MAUREENFARRELL
DEANNAVALCOUR
RANDYSABEDRA

Series 11
 

Series 11 is an exploration of different body positions using black ink.

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KETRYNA FARES

HLB Lighting Design / IALDNY

Butterflies metaphorically mean HOPE and LIFE. Yet, they have a short life which also reminds us that life is short. To me not only do they mean hope and life, but they also represent freedom. Subconsciously...

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NATHALIE FAUBERT

Cline Bettridge Bernstein Lighting Design

Sharing a small watercolor that comes from trying to create without a set objective, and in doing so finding moments of joy. This 5""X7"" watercolor comes from one of those explorations.

FRANCESCA BASTIANINI

Sighte Studio, LLC

Prior to architectural lighting, I studied and worked as a lighting designer for theater and dance for a number of years. One of the side benefits was the opportunity to take production photographs of my work, but I haven’t had...

MATT CARAWAY

Renfro Design Group, Inc.

KETRYNAFARES
NATHALIEFAUBERT
FRANCESCABASTIANINI
MATTCARAWAY
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