Anthony McCall

Since the early 1970s the British-born New York based artist Anthony McCall (b.1946) has been working with projected light. His "solid-light" installations occupy a space between line-drawing, cinema, and sculpture: fundamentally graphic, they are realized through the mediums of film or digital projection and the effect created is that of largescale, three dimensional sculptures composed of shifting membranes of light. Viewing becomes an active process of moving around and through the projected object, exploring it from different points of view.

His films include key works such as Line Describing a Cone (1973), Long Film for Four Projectors (1974), Doubling Back (2003), and Turning Under (2004).

Occupying a space between cinema, sculpture, and drawing, his work's historical importance has been recognized in such exhibitions as Into the Light: the Projected Image in American Art 1964-77, Whitney Museum of American Art (2001-02); The Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the Sixties and Seventies, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna (2003-04); The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zurich (2006); Beyond Cinema: the Art of Projection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin (2006-07); The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality and the Projected Image, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC (2008) and On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2010-11).