CLAREMONT, CA.-The Claremont Museum of Art has extended its current exhibit, Ephemeral: Explorations in Light, through Sunday, December 30, 2007.

�It was logical and viable to extend the exhibition,� says Executive Director William Moreno. �This exhibit is a huge hit with museum visitors and art critics.�

Ephemeral has received accolades for being an exceptionally well-curated show on light. The curator, Pilar Tompkins, has created a multi-media show featuring dynamic installations and sculptures by I�aki Bonillas (Mexico City), Elaine Buckholtz (San Francisco), Thomas Glassford (Mexico City), Won Ju Lim (Los Angeles), and C.E.B Reas (Los Angeles). �These artists utilize the transient and elusive medium of light as one aspect of communication,� Tompkins says. �The works in Ephemeral explore the power of controlled light sources as a way to alter the viewers� visual encounters. Some reference memory, while others are strictly sensory experiences.�

Museum visitors enter the exhibition through I�aki Bonillas' Light Corridor, a long, narrow hallway illuminated by divided sections of warm-toned and cool-toned fluorescent tubes. The light frequency shifts as one walks through the sculpture, subtly affecting perceived temperature and mood.

In Elysian Field, Won Ju Lim recalls an encounter in a treasured Los Angeles recreational area. Utilizing a combination of three-dimensional and projected Lucite elements, light sources create depth and scale resulting in the overall effect of a postmodern cityscape.

C.E.B. Reas merges technology with the fundamentals of art, by creating software that generates fluid and delicate compositions that seemingly float above the floor like lit lily pads. Referencing Sol LeWitt's wall drawings, Reas' piece TI, utilizes technology as silent draftsperson, rendering infinite variations of organic forms. Reas is giving an artist talk at the Museum on October 13, at 3 p.m.

Museum Executive Director William Moreno says, �Whether artificially projected or deconstructed into a narrow spectrum essence, this type of work contains great emotional power. One can reference the Chapel of Notre Dame designed by Le Corbusier at Ronchamps, Haute Sane, France, as light cascades through slot windows.�

According to Le Corbusier, �Light and illumination are inseparable components of form, space and light...Light renders texture, illuminates surface and provides sparkle and life.�