FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 2024
FIT exhibition, Picturing Light, features new large-scale Seth Howe sculpture The Mechanism of Seeing
Installed near a corner window in the FIT lobby, The Mechanism of Seeing’s mirror-polished surface reflects the city
The Mechanism of Seeing (render). Music: Jon Anton
New York, NY – Artist Seth Howe debuts a new Stackwork sculpture installation, The Mechanism of Seeing, at the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) as part of a group exhibition Picturing Light, on view September 21 – October 27, 2024.
Picturing Light, curated by Anne Finkelstein, features artworks that make light their primary subject matter. The participating artists will display an artwork that explores a different category of light: natural, depicted, projected, and reflected light. Howe’s column-like sculpture, fabricated from high polished aluminum parts, embodies natural and reflected light.
Howe’s series of Stackworks sculptures, comprised of repetitive elements of stacked metal, function primarily as “instruments for seeing” rather than distinct sculptural objects. Their assemblage of alternating mirror finish parts creates an ever-changing composition of solids and voids as one moves about them, highlighting the perceptual experience and an awareness of seeing. Howe’s background as an architect is evident in the geometry and form of the structures, as well as in the play of space and light. The Mechanism of Seeing, installed in the FIT lobby window on the corner of 7th Avenue and 27th Street, will engage the viewer in reflections, refractions, and fragments of the lobby interior, the surrounding streetscape, and the viewer themselves.
Howe’s work illuminates our perceptual abilities and encourages us to reflect on not only light within the physical world, but on the act of visual awareness itself.
Exhibition Info
On view September 21 – October 27, 2024
FIT Art and Design Gallery
227 West 27th Street
New York, NY 10001
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About Seth Howe
Seth Howe is a New York-based artist and architect who works in a wide range of media, including sculpture, works on paper, photography, video, and installation. Evoking the strategies of Minimalism, Howe creates austere, highly conceptual works whose negotiations of form, color and scale raise broader questions surrounding the nature of physical perception. Through controlled compositions and a considered use of space, his work encourages an active exchange between artwork and audience, reinforcing the viewing experience as a subjective, embodied event unfolding in real time.
Seth Howe received a Bachelor of Architecture from Cornell University and a Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College.
Website: https://www.sethhowe.com/
Instagram: @sethhowe_art