Carol Salmanson is a light artist who lives and works in Brooklyn and has transformed both galleries and storefronts into unique environments by extending the viewing space for fine art. Salmanson started out as an abstract painter before shifting into light sculpture, suggesting that art could move beyond the enclosure of the gallery’s white cube.

Neo-Gothic Rockets (2011) was commissioned by the owner of 254 Park Avenue South, specific to the corner windows on the second floor. This particular installation incorporates the architectural ornamentation on both sides of the building, captures intersecting surfaces of different colors, and places an abstract image directly within the city’s urban terrain. Salmanson recently returned to the flat two-dimensional surface.

The Gesture Drawing series started in 2010 and is ongoing. It consists of different LED bulbs, mounted on plexi-glass that is illuminated with subdued colors of light. The wiring on both sides combines with the different shapes and hues of each bulb, expanding on the pixel, the color palette and the limits of abstract drawing technique.

In 2010, Carol Salmanson was awarded the Abbey Mural Workshop Fellowship by the National Academy Museum. Additional solo installations have appeared at Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Mixed Greens Gallery and PS 1. In 2010 the artist’s work was featured in New Year, New Work, New Faces at the Storefront Gallery in Brooklyn and in Respendency at the East/West Project in Berlin, Germany.