In this week’s issue of the Mercury, John Motely writes about Hap Tivey’s solo show at the Elizabeth Leach Gallery. Tivey has experimented with the formal and perceptual qualities of light since the late ’60s, and creates LED sculptures that function almost like self-illuminating, flickering, and kinetic paintings. John calls the pieces “mesmerizing,” “sensuous,” and “disorienting,” and muses that several of the pieces, “the edges of shapes appear almost liquid. One half-expects the forms, like those in a lava lamp, to break apart and reassemble in some inevitably fluid motion.”

Tomorrow night, Fri Dec 18, the gallery is hosting a reception for Tivey from 5:30-7:30 pm, and the artist will hold an informal gallery talk at 6 pm. Once you see the pieces, you’ll surely have questions, so tomorrow night is a perfect time to catch this show.

The Elizabeth Leach Gallery is located at 417 NW 9th, and Tivey’s show runs through March 1.