As Light Turns Into Day
@ One River School: Evanston
1034 Davis St, Evanston, IL 60201
Opening Saturday, July 12th, from 12AM - 2PM
On view through Friday, August 1st
“As Light Turns Into Day” considers light as the first unit of measurement, an initial tool by which we began to order time and space. Here, light is explored as both poetic metaphor and precise medium. Fundamental to scientific accuracy, as well as spiritual systems of faith, these works look at light as an underlying source of confidence. Asking why we believe in the things we can’t understand more than those we can.
Through prints, layered materials, and light-responsive structures, the exhibition approaches camouflage as a choreography of light, not solely a tool for concealment, but a dynamic means for alignment, assimilation, and transformation. Drawing on natural fibers like hemp and kozo, images from Andersen’s family farm are imprinted on natural matrices, blending organic and human textures into a shifting pattern that both reveals and obscures. The lightboxes draw a conceptual link between ancient stone-carved calendars and the circuitry of modern silicon chips, positioning light as a force capable of both revelation and erasure. Meanwhile, a series of serigraphs examines mark-making as an act of both mapping and memory, tracing the cumulative layers of human attempts to record, measure, and make sense of time.
Rather than offering fixed interpretations, this show provides a space of layered observation—an environment that welcomes wonder, close looking, and the unfolding of meaning over time. It invites viewers to inhabit uncertainty not as a gap to be closed, but as a place of deep potential, for both necessary reflection and revolutionary foresight.
Beck Andersen is a photographer and interdisciplinary artist whose practice challenges perceptions of reality through interrogations of light, technology, and control. Based in Chicago and holding a BFA in Photography and New Media from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Andersen utilizes the precise unpredictability of photographic and print processes to explore and disrupt normative assumptions around data, surveillance, and historical documentation.
Their work oscillates between analog tactility and digital abstraction, crafting visual experiments that confront viewers with the concealed infrastructures underlying everyday experiences. Inspired by archival imagery, urban infrastructure, and technological systems, Andersen’s work illuminates hidden power dynamics, prompting viewers to critically assess the constructed narratives shaping their perceptions and positions.
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