Specular highlights are the bright spots caused by the reflection of light bouncing off a shiny surface. These Specular Highlights exhibitions include light boxes and computer screens (quite literally a bright spots) in Billings,Montana. It consists of video art and slideshows on monitors in vacant storefront windows in downtown as well as two 40"x30" light boxes outside my home. We host six exhibitions a year.
I was inspired to start this project by several artists and contexts I admire… For example, Carlo Pittore (whom I modeled for from 2002-2004) ran the Galleria dell' Occhio in the East Village, which was best known for its street level display window that exhibited Mail Art from around the world throughout the 1980’s. While studying in in the Czech Republic, the photographer Pavel Banka (who was my MFA advisor) and the ceramicist Jindra Viková would regale me with stories of apartment galleries that showed avant-garde artwork that was not welcome in official contexts during the Communist era.
While there are varied and diverse art institutions and opportunities to show art in the USA in the 21st century, one more never hurts! I’m just getting this project up and running… And am very excited to find art that fit this concept, write if you’re interested.
Version 1 - May and June of 2025
Jim Baken, Dolittlism - www.instagram.com/baken__art
Emmanuel Brookman, Tree House Café
Todd Forsgren, Breathe: Self as the Horizon
Jackson Jarvis, Mover - jacksonjarvis.film
Michael Nathaniel Meyer, Time of Noise - www.michaelmeyerphoto.com
Matthew Moore, Guida - www.matthewmooreprojects.com
Matthew Mosher, Fields, Telluria, Cosmiere, and Minor Arcana - mosher.art
Maya Tyutina, AI Online - www.instagram.com/ibizenka
Alexander Wiuff, Malibu Surf Project - www.instagram.com/out.of.view
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