Artist Sally Weber produces light installations incorporating multiple media to construct a dimensional representations of light in space. Her career working with light in holography, video, and photography fueled her passion for astronomy and the fundamental forces in nature and their elemental interconnections.

Weber earned her Master of Science in Visual Studies from the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has produced numerous public art installations, private commissions, and exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Butler Institute of American Art in Youngstown, OH; the McNay Museum, San Antonio, TX; the Museo of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal; Kunsthalle, Budapest, Hungary; and the Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany.

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Selected Works

Haven

Three steel-framed houses supported on posts honors the migrations of peoples to what was a vast floodplain in central Texas. Drawn by water and fertile land, it also drew conflicts through time. Glass panels inspired by the region fill the sides and roof of one of the houses, and the sun’s brilliance in a second. The third house has a silhouette of a mockingbird whose calls, captured from its surroundings, bear witness to those who found haven there.

Commissioned by the Arts Council of Fort Worth, Public Art Program, Fort Worth, TX

Elemental exhibition, featuring the CORE hologram

Elemental brings together ten works of light exploring the inter-relationship between ourselves and the natural elements. Inspired by the genesis of the elements from supernova and other massive cosmic explosions, as well as the fundamental energetic particles in constant motion at the all levels of life, light tethers us to our origin and inspires the tales we tell to make our passage meaningful emotionally, culturally, intellectually and spiritually.

Women and Their Work, Austin, Texas; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

Realms

Translucent images hover above the surface of the five holographic panels set on low pedestals. Each image suggests the properties of form, flow, connection, mass or a spark while the radial grid of an astrolabe bisects the forms and floats above the deeply receding particle light fields that fall away below.

Alden B. Dow Museum of Science & Art, Midland Center for the Arts, Midland, Michigan; Hill Country Science Mill, Johnson City, Texas

Speed of Shadows

Since a shadow has neither mass nor energy, it is not constrained by the laws of physics. A spherical shadow obscuring the origin of a glow beyond, floats in a cube of blue light in front of the glass panel while a suspended, solid black sphere reflects darkly in a mirror below.

Matrix

This library entrance glows from solar-illuminated color patterns inspired by a computer chip made up of quotations from poetry, prose and personal statements on quest, search or discovery. The texts and symbols honor the library’s role as an archive of information. The imagery patterns were inspired by the evolution of encoded information from the visual to symbols of written language and digital code.

Commissioned for the E.P. Foster Library, Ventura, CA through Ventura Art and Public Place Program

Signature of the Source

Black holes emit turbulent jets of particles and photons across the universe. Tracing back along their trajectory locates them where light, time, and space fuse at the event horizon, masking the origin.

Commissioned by the Werner Richard - Dr. Carl Dörken Foundation for the Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany

Evidence of Time

This installation scans the sky as the earth rotates beneath it. An inverted pendulum, it marks the Entrance Plaza of the Moreno Valley Mall and sweeps slowly from north to south. Illuminated by sunlight, the spectral colors of light race up and down the sculpture’s south face with its motion.

Commissioned for the Moreno Valley Mall, Moreno Valley, CA

Threshold of a Singularity – a Memorial

This installation seeks to capture the edge of a black hole: the event horizon that defines the end point of matter, light, and life as we know it. Beyond the edge lies theory, imagination, and beliefs. This work is a memorial to the artist’s father.