About the Artist

After studying holography under Hendrik Gerritsen and Don Thornton at Brown University, Steve Weinstock focused on using the Benton rainbow hologram process to create 3D shadowgrams. With influences ranging from Man Ray and Kandinsky to Berkhout and Moree, Steve explored a world of painting shadows in space with a palette of color unavailable in any other medium.

This style of hologram is illuminated by a white light. One of the characteristics that Steve exploits is the way the hologram's image changes color depending on the angle or height from which it is viewed. Multiple exposures allow the shadows in one exposure to be filled with light (and therefore color) from a different exposure. The entire image changes form as well as you bend down or stand up tall while looking at the hologram. For this reason, the images on this site are presented in a way that tries to capture that experience.

The holograms shown on this site represent the experiments, sketches and finished pieces made during a 7-year period from 1986 through 1993. Most holograms were made in Steve's studio/lab in Los Angeles, but many were conceived in Prague and Providence, two cities where Steve lived during that time. Finished pieces combined the non-physical holographic imagery with physical materials to accentuate the differences. Glass became the material that had the most interesting effect, in that it could have a physical presence yet be 'invisible', while the holographic images were visible without a physical form. The fascination with glass led Weinstock to his next career as a glass artist.

For more information, send an email to steve@abstract-holography.com