Beyond LUX

Here, vision is not passive; it is an act of participation. To enter this space is to stand at a horizon, beyond light, beyond form, at the seam where imagination pushes forward into what comes next. Light has always been a guide, a threshold, from the first torch drawn across cavern walls to the calculated lattice of photons inside a microprocessor. Illumination has shaped how we know the world and how we imagine what lies just beyond our reach. It reveals and obscures, clarifies and unsettles; it is both presence and apparition.

Beyond LUX emerges from this lineage, an inquiry into the power of light as both material and metaphor. In this exhibition, Cody Henrichs and Joe Schaeffer converge two divergent yet complementary traditions: the precision of digital design and the insistence of physical making. Joe working in the language of simulation and algorithmic form, generating structures born from digital logic and virtual possibility. Cody works through touch, weight, and constructed space, shaping matter through labor, and the quiet stubbornness of hand and tool.

Together, these processes overlap, resonate, and collide. Light becomes the membrane between them, bending across surfaces, casting absence, animating form, and dissolving edges until origin becomes uncertain. The works live not as objects alone, but as atmospheres, thresholds, and invitations into a liminal horizon where perception flickers between the real and the imagined.

Beyond LUX is a place of convergence: where code finds body, where material becomes ether, where light is not simply illumination but an active force that builds new architectures of wonder. It is the moment just before recognition, where we sense the edge of something forming, a future suspended in a luminous breath.

On view thru February, 2026