Liquid Light Show
Experience the psychedelic visuals of the ’60s music scene through a mesmerizing liquid light show projected onto the facade of NYBG’s Mertz Building during a live performance of color, motion, and music!
About the Artist
Liquid Light Lab is the work of Steve Pavlovsky, a multi-dimensional light artist from New York City. A majority of his work utilizes liquid projection, experimental media, and hand-made organic elements first seen in Psychedelic Light Shows of the 1960s. Following on the visual music traditions of Kandinsky, Thomas Wilfred, and The Joshua Light Show, Mr. Pavlovsky invokes the sublime and spiritual. Building upon an analog relationship to Light and Time, Pavlovsky has created Liquid Light Lab, a living, breathing, visual expression of music, nature, and the human spirit.
Liquid Light Shows are a multimedia performance art that uses colored oils, dyes, glass, and light to create dynamic real-time visuals to accompany live music. The artform began in early-1960s San Francisco and evolved throughout the psychedelic ballroom scene, providing an immersive backdrop for musicians such as the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, and Pink Floyd. Artists used technology such as overhead projectors, slide projectors, film projectors, and modified devices such as color wheels to achieve their effects. Today’s Liquid Light Shows may incorporate the same tools, along with modern upgrades such as high-definition camera feeds, LED light tables, RGB color wheels, digital projectors, and powerful VJ software.
Image © Liquid Light Lab
Location In and around the Haupt Conservatory