1 of 10, 2025, Archival inkjet prints on 100% cotton paper mounted to aluminum, 22 x 30 inches

Luc Demers Bio

2025

Luc Demers is an artist living in Southern Maine. In the early nineties, he studied art at USM, completing the BFA program with a concentration in photography. In 1994, while continuing to pursue his personal work, he began working as a commercial photographer. In 2010, he earned his MFA in Visual Art at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently, Demers is an exhibiting artist, freelance art documentation photographer, and Associate Professor of Art at The University of Maine at Augusta.

Artist Statement

Color Cast: Dichroic My art practice is a meditation on, and an investigation of photography through photography. I am interested in photographs as objects of history, science, and art. I am interested in how we use photography to remember, to inform, and to explore the visual world around us, to preserve the world that we see, and to reveal a world only visible through photographs. I strive to make photographs that not only expand my understanding of the visual world but also expand my understanding of how we see and how photography functions as a medium of seeing. In Color Cast: Dichroic, I am continuing my observation of how color is reflected and bent out of light. I am moving from a gathering of found light to a studio study using strobe light, where I use dichroic glass fragments to split, reflect, and cast light of different colors onto sketchbook pages. Dichroic glass, used for various scientific and industrial applications, including photography, is coated with a microscopically thin layer of material that reflects small parts of the visible spectrum and allows the rest of the wavelengths to pass through. This is the same principle at play when we observe colorful bands on the surface of oily water. This phenomenon is also known as thin film interference or disruptive optics.