The City of West Hollywood, through its Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, presents Illumetric—a triptych of massive diamond, cube and rectangle-shaped sculptures brought to the city by Shana Mabari.

Mabari's latest work is installed on the median of the 8400 block of Santa Monica Boulevard (between La Cienega Boulevard and Orlando Avenue) as part of the City of West Hollywood’s Art on the Outside program (July 2014 through June 2015).

Illumetric's diamond, cube and rectangle-shaped pieces radiate colors of red, blue and yellow. Throughout the day they will change from saturated hues to a transparent and ethereal glow as illumination effect takes place after the sun goes down. The pieces capture and interact with the ephemeral qualities of daylight, and feature internal LED illumination for nighttime display, emphasizing light as an intangible but physical and communal presence at any hour.

Shana Mabari is a Los Angeles-based artist who explores the intersections of art, science and technology in her work. Her installations and environments investigate ways in which we perceive our world through a skilled orchestration of light, reflection, color contrast and geometry. Her installations and environments investigate ways in which worldly stimuli and phenomena are absorbed and processed through sensory and visual perception. She orchestrates light, reflection, color contrast and geometry to play with and expand the reality and experience of physical space. Mabari's work extends the "Light and Space" movement that originated in the 1960s into the 21st century.

To light up the cube and rectangle-shaped sculptures, they used LEDtronics LED T8 tube lights. A total of 48 LED T8 tube lights of lengths from 2 to 4 feet were used in all. The 2-foot LED T8 only uses 9 watts and replaces 16W to 18W fluorescent tube lights. The 3-foot LED tube lights only use 13 watts and replace 25W to 30W fluorescent tube lights. The 4-foot LED T8s only use 18 watts and replace 32W to 36W fluorescent lights. LED T8 tube lights last over 50,000 hours, provide even lighting, no buzzing nor flickering, no harmful UV/IR radiation and no toxic mercury to worry about.

About LEDtronics®
Based in Torrance, California, LEDtronics, Inc., since 1983 has been a world leader in designing, manufacturing and packaging Solid State Lighting products and state-of-the-art LED’s to meet the world’s constantly changing lighting needs—from industrial control panel LED indicator lights to solid-state LED street light fixtures, LED Post Top or Pendant bulbs, High-Bay or Low Bay fixtures, LED Wall Pack Floodlights from direct incandescent- replacement based LED bulbs to direct fluorescent-replacement T8 and CFL LED tube lamps.

The LEDtronics LED T8 tube lights direct weblink:
http://www.ledtronics.com/Products/products_new.aspx?category=T8+Tube+Lights&i=Y

For more information regarding the City of West Hollywood's art programs, visit www.weho.org/arts or call (323) 848-6883. For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY: (323) 848-6496.

West Hollywood weblink to this application story:
http://www.weho.org/residents/arts-and-culture/projects-by-year/2014-projects/illumetric

Shana Mabari website:
http://shanamabari.com

Photo Credit: Eric Minh Swenson