Meet the Artists

Clerestory Light

Chris Bocchiaro, Zach Dobryn,

Greg Hanson, and Megan Kinneen

HURRICANE

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, and in the human and ecological connections which may be amplified and celebrated. 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.

Michael Crawbuck and Mickey Santana

THE COLOSSUS TREE

Three Bee is an experiential art collective led by Michael and Mickey, dedicated to creating whimsical interactive installations that amplify marginalized stories and foster joyful conversations. In 2025, we were thrilled to participate in the Illumination Light Art Festival and debut our first public art project, “The Glass Garden Pavilion.” This installation celebrated the LGBTQIA+ community’s perseverance in the face of New York City gay bar raids and closures in the 1960s. Most recently, we created “First Taste of Diaspora,” an interactive beverage installation about migration and finding home, in partnership with immersive culinary theatre producers, StoryCourse. We are eager to continue blending mediums including light design, hand-crafted materials, and culinary arts to create surprising and uplifting experiences.

Joe Petrowski

DISCO BLOOM

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.

Mariel Zook

DREAMING GYRE

Mariel is a multimedia and installation artist with a background in fashion and scenic design. Recycled and discarded materials, such as plastic and cardboard packaging, are among her favorite mediums. In addition to creating her own art, which focuses on otherworldly creatures and environments, she has worked on numerous collaborative art projects with a variety of collectives and groups.

Most recently, Mariel collaborated with ArtistSpark and Shandy & Showers on Phase 1 of Dreaming Gyre, exhibited at Love Burn 2026, an art and music festival in Miami, Florida. Other recent projects include Human Charging Station, created in collaboration with Tania Corporan and exhibited at Love Burn 2025 and the ChaShaMa Gala 2025; Unleashed: Disco Dog, created in collaboration with Maria Gorodnitsky for Burning Man 2025; and various scenic art pieces and installations for Kostume Kult, an NYC-based art collective, exhibited at Love Burn 2022, Burning Man 2022, and the collective’s NYC fundraising events.

Her work also includes scenic design and installation projects for Josana Blue, a local NYC artist, and DesignTube, an immersive brand activation agency. Mariel has additionally participated in large-scale participatory art and street theater events organized by groups and collectives including Shadow Traffic NYC, Processional Arts, the People’s Puppets of OWS, and Human Assisted Art.

David Gomez & Kali Rosendo

HEXAPORTAL

David and Kali are a husband-and-wife artist-engineer duo creating large-scale illuminated sculptures for events since attending their first Burning Man in 2022. Both engineers who met at MIT, their art combines technical precision with playful interaction, specializing in interactive illuminated aluminum sculptural installations and wearable light art. Some of their previous installations include Cyclica (2023) and Gravity Organ (2024). Beyond large-scale work, they are known for their wearable art, often spotted in over-the-top coordinated costumes.

Kingmallard

LIGHT BATH PORTAL

A Brooklyn-based artist, they have spent the past decade developing Light Baths, a practice that transforms human bodies and spaces through projected light and digital patterns. What began in 2016 as intimate portrait sessions has grown into gallery exhibitions, performance collaborations, and large-scale public installations.

Their medium combines projection technology with live interaction to create what they call an “armor of artwork,” transforming participants’ skin into illuminated canvases that empower new forms of self-expression. Drawing from a background in hospitality, they focus on crafting safe, welcoming spaces where people can explore transformation through light.

Their work has been shown at The Other Art Fair in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, Miami Art Week’s Satellite Art Show, and the 92nd Street Y, as well as in multiple solo exhibitions, including Light Baths: Environments Reflected at Button Studios and Light Baths: Focus at CIA Gallery. They also completed a two-week ChaShaMa residency in Midtown Manhattan featuring daily interactive public programming.

They maintain an ongoing projection design partnership with Cipriani and have presented Light Baths at more than 50 events across the United States. After attending Illumination NYC 2025 as an audience member, they were inspired by the festival’s commitment to interactive, community-driven light art—an approach that closely aligns with the direction in which they are continuing to develop their own practice.

Geoffrey Hicks

LUMINOUS VINES

A New York–based artist and creative technologist, they work with light, interaction, and engineered systems for public space. Their practice focuses on creating immersive environments that respond to human presence through custom lighting, sensing technologies, and real-time control systems. They work across sculpture, installation, and media-based projects, often developing custom hardware and software to support durable, long-term public presentation.

Their temporary light installations have been presented at the Napa Lighted Art Festival in California, Georgetown Glow in Washington, D.C., and Glow Nights in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. In addition to festival work, they have designed and installed permanent light installations in public facilities in California, New York, Maryland, Texas, and Oklahoma, with a new installation currently in development in Connecticut.

Through their studio, OptArt LLC, they also design and produce commercial projection-mapping installations, ultra-high-resolution LED wall systems, and other custom-engineered media environments. Across both artistic and commercial projects, their work emphasizes thoughtful fabrication, safe public interaction, and reliable performance in outdoor and high-traffic settings.

The Mz.Icar Collective

THE FULL SET

Mz. Icar is an anonymous, interdisciplinary art collective whose work centers radical Black futurity, play, and autonomy. Rooted in collage, installation, and time-based media, the collective explores themes of identity, memory, and liberation through large-scale murals, public installations, and speculative design. Their work has been exhibited at Paradigm Gallery (Philadelphia), MINT Gallery (Atlanta), and Welancora Gallery (Brooklyn), and featured in the Photoville Festival in Downtown Brooklyn and one of the top attractions by ABC 5 news for BLINK 2022 Cincinnati. Mz. Icar has created site-specific installations for Otherworld Philadelphia and Etsy’s headquarters, and produced branded art for Ms. Lauryn Hill’s world tour, Essence Magazine, Nickelodeon, and Doritos. In 2021, the collective was selected for the Philadelphia Fellowship for Black Artists presented by Mural Arts Philadelphia. Their large-scale public works are in the permanent collections of the City of Boston, Green Bay, Wisconsin, and Luna Park in Coney Island. Recent projects include Ile Omi, a projection-mapped underwater world honoring African diasporic memory, and The Full Set, a 20-foot inflatable sculpture celebrating Black beauty practices. Mz. Icar continues to push the boundaries of narrative and form, blending analog traditions and emerging technology to create communal, immersive experiences.

Experience Lab

INFINITE MOON

Experience Lab is an Experiential studio based in NYC focusing on Place making, immersive installations and experiential design.