Krasl Art Center is open to the public and is a creative and inclusive place to engage with the arts for free.
Explore sculpture outdoors, experience contemporary exhibitions in The Galleries and The Lab, purchase artist-made items, learn in our studios, and attend dynamic programs and events year-round.
Family Days & Family Nights: Free drop-in artmaking for all ages. Events take place at Benton Harbor Public Library and at Krasl Art Center.
Visit krasl.org for details on exhibition programming and classes.
Image: The exterior of the Krasl Art Center. Photo by Aram Vartian
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For much of his career, Light has created sculptures intended for outdoor placement, where seasonal shadows become part of the work itself. Through years of photographic documentation, Light has amassed an archive of these ephemeral forms. In this exhibition, he transforms those shadow—images born of absence into drawings, portraits, and sculptures that explore possibility, imagination, and the heroic tradition.
Light explains, “Shadows inevitably exist outside of the realm of things, made purely of possibility, their presence constituted by absence. Without the burden of being a thing, they become a place for imagining, for questioning what might be.”
The exhibition demonstrates Light’s shift from a practice rooted in direct engagement with physical materials toward one informed by images and their generative potential. His process of experimentation — marked by both failures and triumphs — elevates fleeting impulses into resolved works of art.
Krasl Art Center Associate Curator Meli Bandera notes, “Andrew’s work bridges the tangible with the intangible, reminding us that absence and presence exist together in constant dialogue. His practice is both rigorous and poetic, and this exhibition highlights the depth of his inquiry into form, light, and possibility.”
Andrew Light is an award-winning, multidisciplinary artist with an emphasis in direct metal sculpture. Trained both academically and through apprenticeships, he is celebrating his 20th year of professional practice. Light has participated in hundreds of exhibitions throughout the United States and the United Kingdom, with works included in public and private collections worldwide.
For more information regarding the exhibitions, visit www.krasl.org.
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