Lightscapes: Photography and the Laser

Venue: Willamette Science & Technology Center.

Location: Eugene Downtown Centre, Eugene, Oregon, USA.

Date: Nov. 28, 1981 - Jan. 10. 1982

Catalog: No.

Type: Holography

Organized with David Sokoloff and Arlie Connor in Oregon.

San Francisco Artists Survey the Landscape in the Light of the Twenty-first Century." Nancy Gorglione and Gary Zellerbach produced this exhibition, which lead to the non profit organization: L.A.S.E.R. The Laser Arts Society for Education and Research. Gorglione and Zellerbach wrote grants for the exhibition through Laser Affiliates, member project of the Haight Ashbury Arts Workshop, initially hoping to subsidize the art work. The San Francisco Hotel Tax Fund (now S.F. Grants for the Arts) helped us advertise the exhibition. Lightscapes opened at Holos Gallery, 1792 Haight St. December 4, 1980, though Feb. 28 1981. It featured holograms and dichroic glass sculpture by Steve Anderson, Gloria DiBiase, Vince DiBiase, James R. Feroe, CB Gaines, Bruce Goldberg, Nancy Gorglione, Randy James, John Kaufman, Dr. Narinda Kapony, Jeffrey W. Milton, Roland Rice, Laura Scheider, Steve Slater, and Fred Unterseher.

Lightscapes became a mutual project of Laser Affiliates and the new L.A.S.E.R. with Nancy Gorglione and Gary Zellerbach continuing as Curators. Lightscapes traveled to:

Lightscapes at the San Francisco Art Festival, produced by the S.F. Arts Commission in S.F. Civic Center Larkin Hall. Curated by Laser Affiliates and L.A.S.E.R. The S.F. Arts Festival was a huge exhibition of San Francisco Bay Area artists, and so this was a really nice recognition of holographic art. An updated version of Lightscapes was exhibited, featuring 28 holograms by San Francisco Bay Area Holographers. Greg Cherry made portable light display walls, and explanatory graphics by Nancy Gorglione helped introduce holography to the 25,000 visitors to the exhibit. This Lightscapes represented a sort of merger of the 1983 L.A.S.E.R. Exhibition, Lightworks, Provocative Holograms by L.A.S.E.R. Members at Holos Gallery, and the earlier Lightscapes. Throughout the 1980's the holographic arts were developing in quality so rapidly that we updated each exhibition of Lightscapes.

[Gorglione]