Meet the Artists
Illumination 2025 Fall Showcase Light Artists
Clerestory Light
Chris Bocchiaro, Zach Dobryn, Greg Hanson, and Megan Kinneen
The Woods Are Calling
Clerestory Light is an interdisciplinary design and production studio specializing in creating unique immersive experiences and dynamic landmarks. With backgrounds in theatre, music, technology, architecture, anthropology, and public history, we seek out the spirit of special places and help to tell their stories. Our place-based work finds inspiration in the natural and built environments where it will be installed. Through exploration and collaboration, we distil the elemental narratives of each place and illustrate them through original music synchronized with dynamic light. Our work transforms environments, conjuring the colors of spring in the midwinter, or the traces of magic in the quotidian. This transformation highlights the inherent beauty in each place, and the mission of those who care for them.
Robert Montenegro
TBA
Roberto Montenegro is a queer Los Angeles born, NYC based digital artist who uses video as his medium. Starting his career as an aerospace engineer for the US government, Roberto now creates and animates original video content specifically designed to inspire and awe audiences for live events and concerts. His expertise ranges from 2D and 3D animation and visualization, stage design, and creative direction in multimedia. For the past 15 years Roberto has worked all over the world on shows for Gay Pride New York, Art Basel, and Ultra Music Festival. He has been the creative director for The Pines Party for the past seven years. Roberto cofounded the Free Radical Design Group with his partner, Guy J Smith.
Joe Petrowski
TBA
Joe Petrowski is a creative designer who specializes in imaginative lighting design. Joe can be found creating memorable moments for thousands of spectators through dazzling and spectacular lighting displays and installations or creating visual elements at a nightclub. Joe has collaborated with various musical artists and production companies creating unique entertainment experiences. Credits include Art Bath, The Saint at Large, The Pines Party, Fever, The Q, Laissez Faire, Mission Nightclub, Hearsay, Knockdown Center, New York City Gay Men’s Chorus, Macy’s Santaland, Mckittrick Hotel & Insomniac, and Walt Disney World.
Everything Good Studio
Rachel Ciavarella and Jack Kalish
SMALL HADRON COLLIDER
Everything Good Studio is a collaboration between Rachel Ciavarella and Jack Kalish, a multi-disciplinary art and design team based in Brooklyn, NY. Our work is focused on creative and innovative applications of new and emerging technologies. We are interested in the use of art and technology as a means of exploring new ideas through engagement and immersion. We believe art is completed by its audience and should be participatory by design. Through our work we invite the audience to question their preconceived notions of reality and see the world with child-like openness and imagination.
Will Schymik
ASTRAL GATE
Will Schymik is a Philadelphia-based artist who merges digital fabrication, embedded electronics, and generative art to create immersive, interactive experiences. Drawing on his background in software engineering, he programs controllers and visual systems that bring his art to life. As a legally blind artist, he leans into the irony of working in visual media. Rather than a limitation, it has guided him toward digital fabrication, a medium that gives his ideas both structure and precision.
Uriel Guy
ECLIPSED LUMINOSITY
Uriel Guy is an Israeli-born, New York–based artist whose work with LEDs spans from intimate wearables to a 50-foot mobile art pieces. Featured at Burning Man, NYC galleries, and private events, he has spent over a decade exploring geometric forms in light. Drawing on his engineering background, Uriel creates large-scale, immersive works driven by a deep internal need for expression. While working with advanced technology, he preserves the innocence of color and movement, inviting curiosity, play, and interaction.