You can’t understand light without also knowing darkness. It’s like you can’t understand true happiness unless you also experience sadness. The best design comes when there’s a balance between light ...

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - The Topeka and Shawnee Co. Public Library opened the Light and Shadow Art Exhibit on Dec. 15 in the Alice C. Sabatini Gallery to explore the dynamics of light and how artists ...

In the university town of Leiden, The Netherlands, 350 years ago this week, a prosperous miller and his wife celebrated the birth of a son destined to tower over the painters of the northern ...

With some sleight of hand — or rather sleight of light — artist Kumi Yamashita manipulates solid objects to create shadows that are nothing like the objects on the wall. That’s how the artist has ...

Shadow art probably started about 20 minutes after the first caveman discovered fire. Which makes the fact that a book like Megumi Kajiwara and Tathuhiko Nijima’s Motion Silhouette all the more ...

New York City-based Japanese artist Kumi Yamashita casts light on seemingly-random objects to create surprising shadow art. At first glance, her work may appear to be the silhouettes of people, but ...

“Scene of Souls in Hell” (19th century), donkey skin; Shaanxi, China (all images courtesy Museu do Oriente) LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations. Its ...

Where there is light, there is shadow. In an odd way, shadows are essential to the best “white light paintings” by Mary Corse. Corse began the series in 1968, determined to find a way to physically ...