Matthew Schreiber

Matthew Schreiber's laser sculptures create seemingly solid architectural forms from pure light. Drawing on his background in holography and over a decade working with famed Light and Space artist James Turrell, Schreiber constructs intricate geometries—woven ceilings, hovering corridors, immense W-shaped structures—using hundreds of precisely positioned laser beams suspended in haze. The works don't move, animate, or produce sound; they simply exist as static volumes that viewers can walk through and around. What appears to be a sci-fi simulation reveals itself as something tangible, occupying the threshold between the material and the utterly permeable.

Matthew Schreiber's laser sculptures create seemingly solid architectural forms from pure light. Drawing on his background in holography and over a decade working with famed Light and Space artist James Turrell, Schreiber constructs intricate geometries—woven ceilings, hovering corridors, immense W-shaped structures—using hundreds of precisely positioned laser beams suspended in haze. The works don't move, animate, or produce sound; they simply exist as static volumes that viewers can walk through and around. What appears to be a sci-fi simulation reveals itself as something tangible, occupying the threshold between the material and the utterly permeable.

Matthew Schreiber's laser sculptures create seemingly solid architectural forms from pure light. Drawing on his background in holography and over a decade working with famed Light and Space artist James Turrell, Schreiber constructs intricate geometries—woven ceilings, hovering corridors, immense W-shaped structures—using hundreds of precisely positioned laser beams suspended in haze. The works don't move, animate, or produce sound; they simply exist as static volumes that viewers can walk through and around. What appears to be a sci-fi simulation reveals itself as something tangible, occupying the threshold between the material and the utterly permeable.

Schreiber's holograms are created using traditional laser-based techniques—true "wave-front reconstruction" processes that embed patterns of light within glass. His ongoing "Orders of Light" series contains no reference image; they are recordings of divided light itself, capturing the color gradients and spatial depth that emerge when laser beams are split and recombined. Other works, like the "Bowie" series begun after David Bowie's death, use deliberate interference—the artist's hand disrupting the holographic process—to produce ghostly cancellations of light. Each piece celebrates a technology whose workings remain, by Schreiber's own admission, partly mysterious. Schreiber will create a series of holograms for MODE.

Schreiber's holograms are created using traditional laser-based techniques—true "wave-front reconstruction" processes that embed patterns of light within glass. His ongoing "Orders of Light" series contains no reference image; they are recordings of divided light itself, capturing the color gradients and spatial depth that emerge when laser beams are split and recombined. Other works, like the "Bowie" series begun after David Bowie's death, use deliberate interference—the artist's hand disrupting the holographic process—to produce ghostly cancellations of light. Each piece celebrates a technology whose workings remain, by Schreiber's own admission, partly mysterious. Schreiber will create a series of holograms for MODE.

Schreiber's holograms are created using traditional laser-based techniques—true "wave-front reconstruction" processes that embed patterns of light within glass. His ongoing "Orders of Light" series contains no reference image; they are recordings of divided light itself, capturing the color gradients and spatial depth that emerge when laser beams are split and recombined. Other works, like the "Bowie" series begun after David Bowie's death, use deliberate interference—the artist's hand disrupting the holographic process—to produce ghostly cancellations of light. Each piece celebrates a technology whose workings remain, by Schreiber's own admission, partly mysterious. Schreiber will create a series of holograms for MODE.