Liz Liguori (b. 1979) is a contemporary New York-based artist whose work explores the infinite expressions of light as painting and, most recently, sculpture. Her process blends traditional methods of art-making with technologies both new and antiquated.

Since inventing her technique of “painting” using light and photochemistry, Liguori has immersed herself in this rigorous creative process to produce multi-media works that are unique and wide-ranging in scale. Liguori’s “light paintings” use a cameraless darkroom process in which she exposes photosensitive paper with hand-held lasers. Liguori manually bends and manipulates the light, using light modifiers—such as prisms, diffraction gratings, glass lenses, and even broken bits of vintage technology—to create compositions of chance and magic that explore the essence of the photographic medium in the manner of abstract expressionism. Each individual work records an ephemeral moment of light moving through space, revealing truths about nature often unseen by the human eye. 

Liguori started to play with hand-held light manipulation during her early career as a lighting designer in the NYC Nightlife scene. Her live, one-of-a-kind laser performances took the dance floor experience to a new immersive level. Her extensive background as a photographer, along with her academic pursuits in creative technologies, contribute to the distinct, multi-disciplinary quality of Liguori’s work.