1708 Gallery is pleased to announce the awards from its fifth annual InLight Richmond. Last night InLight 2012 illuminated the facades, storefront windows, parking lots and alleyways of Richmond’s downtown Arts & Culture District with light-based art, performances and the Community Lantern Parade. Thousands from the greater Richmond community attended the free, one-night event to experience and participate in engaging and dynamic artworks by national artists installed outside the gallery walls.
The InLight Richmond 2012 juror, Melissa Ho, Assistant Curator at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, selected Virginia artist Devon Johnson’s Noms de Pays for the Best in Show Award. Johnson’s digitally converted 8mm film evokes feelings of time and loss and the fleetingness of memory. Installed in a courtyard in downtown Richmond, Virginia, the intimacy of the space and a sense of history in the architecture extended this sense of nostalgia.
Ho also selected New York artist Jason Peters’ installation Meandering Dynamics, constructed with found buckets, LED lights and cable, for the Best in Green Award.
InLight Richmond 2012 attendees were invited to vote for their favorite work of art by texting. The People’s Choice Award was given to Richmond, Virginia’s own Nelly Kate and Dave Watkins for their interactive audio visual installation and performance, Interstitial Transduction.
