{"product_id":"leo-villareal-9783775726566","title":"Leo Villareal","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerican artist Leo Villareal (born 1967) is the most prominent light sculptor among a younger generation of light artists. In 1997  having abandoned his work with interactive television  Villareal began to pursue a more systems-based approach  devising complex light sculptures in which he combined strobe lights  neon  and most recently  LED bulbs activated by the artists own extraordinary custom-made software. The effect of these bulbs  and the software that steers their flickering patterns  is cumulative and magical: thousands of tiny white LEDs may resemble a starry night as seen in a planetarium (Villareal installed this work in the windows of the Peter Jay Sharp Building at the Brooklyn Academy of Music)  while tubes of colored LEDs masked by a diffuser give a softer effect that resembles something like a Monet painting of water lilies set in motion. This volume accompanies the first museum survey of Villareals hypnotic and exhilarating light sculptures at the San Jose Museum of Art.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67923863404597,"sku":"ByrdShop_377572656X","price":249.57,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9783775726566.jpg?v=1794117275","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/leo-villareal-9783775726566","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}