Light painting artist Vicki DaSilva has been creating her images since 1980. In 1981, while she was an art student, Vicki spent the year in NYC working as an intern for video and performance artist Joan Jonas. Through Joan’s vast artist network Vicki began a ten-year personal assistant job with sculptor Richard Serra. The influences of Joan and Richard, along with the birth of Hip Hop and the fusion of graffiti and fine art that was primarily directed by Keith Haring (whom Vicki knew from his home town of Kutztown, PA, where she attended Kutztown University) was extremely influential in her art. Vicki has the honor of holding several light painting titles. She is the first female light painting artist and the first light painter to create “Text Light Graffiti”. Vicki has shot the majority of her work on film. She is known for her light graffiti work as well as her elaborate installation based light paintings. Vicki, along with her husband Antonio, (whom she met while on a light painting trip to Paris) use 4 and 8-foot fluorescent bulbs attached to a complex system of tracks and pulleys to create her work. The enormous amount of time and effort it takes for her just to set up her light painting installation work, and then the fact that she shoots it all on film is incredible. In the 1990′s Vicki took some time off to be a full time mom, in 1999 she began light painting again full time and has not stopped since. Vicki can be found roaming the dark streets of New York City where she often travels to create her light painting work. She now lives in Pennsylvania and continues to promote, progress, and create light painting photography. Vicki started shooting digital in 2008 but she also continues to shoot chrome film.
Here is the set up used by Vicki DaSilva on some of her light painting images, she uses pullies and tube lights to create the sheets of light like in the frst image diagonals the sheets of light come down from the top of the bridge to the floor in blue and red reversed backwards she also dose a lot of light grafiti using a lonng shutter speed and a tourch to write out the words, she also used her light painting for sending a message she has done the pink ribbon for breast cancer awarness and also the homage to burberry.
The set up.
Diagonals 2002
Bike Gang 2010
Charlie Sheen 2011
Chimmeny Corner 2010
Homage To burberry 2009
Inside Out 2010
Pink Ribbon 2010
Ring Of Fire 2011
Self Portrait 1987
Vertical Light Walk 2009
Here is a vedio of behind the scenes on the video for a rebok advert feturing Vicki DaSilva along with Darren Pearson and Dana Maltby two other light painters who all braught there variing skills together from there experience with light paiting photography and together made the advert for rebok
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