“My light sculptures are created from pure light refracted into the brilliant colors of our physical world. Using dichroic glass, which divides the light spectrum, transmitting one color while reflecting its opposite, I create sculptural light paintings with forms and colors that continually evolve, appear and disappear in meditative patterns.” – Deanne Sabeck
Deanne Sabeck is a light artist who focuses on creating light sculptures by utilizing the reflective properties of dichroic glass. She began her art career while studying at Arizona State University where she pursued a Bachelor’s of Fine Arts. Right out of school, she started using glass as her main medium. She created works that utilized stained glass, glass slumping, fusing, and blowing, and eventually discovered the material known as Dichroic glass. Since this discovery, all of her modern day pieces have included this special type of glass as it allowed her to work much more directly with light.
Being able to work directly with light became one of her great passions and influenced all of her later works. She is quoted as saying “I love the idea of working with the light spectrum itself so directly, as it is really the essence of life” showing the importance that she places on light.
Once she started using dichroic glass she has been commissioned for many public and private pieces, with a fair number of her works featured in healthcare facilities. These works allowed her to spread the feelings of hope and relaxation while cultivating each visitors curiosity and creativity. One of her major themes for many of these pieces comes from the words that she embeds inside her sculptures. Words such as, Illuminate, Inspire, Nourishment, and other uplifting words can be seen in many of her pieces. She hopes that these words in her sculptures will cause the viewers to really think about what each of these words means and she hopes to inspire creative thinking regarding these words.
Deanne Sabeck also does some work for charity. Her Raindrop Project consists of hundreds of individual drops of rain, formed from glass and adorned with this dichroic glass. With this piece she aims to highlight the importance of water and the uniqueness of life that water allows to live. Pieces sold from this collection also help donate towards the World Water Fund.
