Downtown, Los Angeles
August Muth
Material Light
Parrasch Heijnen“Light as we perceive it, gives us only a brief glimpse of the momentary realities in which we exist; light is the faithful archivist of time.” —August Muth, 2011 Parrasch Heijnen is pleased to present August Muth: Material Light, the gallery’s first solo exhibition with Santa Fe, NM-based artist August Muth (b. 1955, Albuquerque, NM). August Muth has spent his life cultivating the delicate techniques and nuances within the medium of holography. He has strived to capture light in a tangible form, creating works observed as fields of energy, and directing the eye and the body to reimagine the pictorial field. The artist’s fluid constellations of geometric forms shift, overlap, and disperse in relation to viewer perspective. Using uniquely created light sensitive emulsions on glass, Muth is able to shape radiant color fields that draw the viewer in and expand the sense of space and time. Evolving his vision from the perspective of geometric abstraction artists such as Frederick Hammersley and John McLaughlin, Muth creates groundbreaking dichromatic holograms which archive patterns of photons and electromagnetic waves. These tactile forms of pure color occupy physical space, creating a field of pure light and vibratory energy, allowing for the expansion of visual and physical fields of perception. Muth’s practice seeks “to reveal a cognitive holographic dimension within our ordinary experiences of light, and to stimulate a dialogue between the ordinary and the extraordinary planes of understanding.” August Muth has exhibited throughout the United States and internationally. Select group exhibitions include Light, Space, and the Shape of Time, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM (2025); Shadow and Light, NM Museum of Art - Vladem Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (2023); Iridescence, Hologram Foundation & Holocenter, NY, NY (2019); and Art in Holography / Light Space & Time, Aveiro City Museum, Aviero, Portugal (2018), among others. Muth’s work is held in institutional collections including the NM Museum of Art - Vladem Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM; Center on Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM; MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA; Corning Museum of Glass, Corning, NY; and Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH.