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Butler showing light-based art

The work of Matthew Schreiber will be featured in an exhibition opening Sunday at the Butler Institute of American Art.

Schreiber, who produces work in a wide variety of mediums, including drawing, performance, sculpture, video and light, is mostly known for his work with holography and laser light sculptures. Recurring subjects within Schreiber’s work center on novelty, the occult and spectacle by using tools of physics, technology and perception.

“Sauron, Bowie and Maquettes” consists of three types of light-based artwork, including laser light sculpture and holography.

According to Schreiber, “Making a hologram is technically difficult, it’s a kind of dark art. It’s a very mysterious and strange process… The idea of mediumship, the idea of channeling through this process so that in a way, I’m becoming possessed.”

The artist was drawn to exhibit at the Youngstown museum after learning about its Bermant Gallery of Art and Technology.

Schreiber grew up in Cleveland and his work has been shown at the Boca Raton Museum of Art, Phillip and Patricia Frost Museum of Science, Cornell University’s Johnson Museum of Art and New York’s Johannes Vogt Gallery.

The exhibition runs through Sept. 29 at the Butler, 524 Wick Ave., Youngstown. A meet-the-artist reception is scheduled from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. For more information go to butlerart.com.

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