Jennifer Rose Sciarrino: Petrichor at Daniel Faria Gallery
Founded in 2011, Daniel Faria opened his gallery in Toronto’s west end supporting artists working across different media and approaches, featuring artists who specialize in material, cultural, and conceptual questions. Located in the St. Helens Avenue area, the gallery is a significant part of the neighborhood’s contemporary art spaces.
Jennifer Rose Sciarrino: Petrichor
In Petrichor, Jennifer Rose Sciarrino explores the interconnectedness of human and more-than-human life through a new series of stone carvings shaped by ecological histories and deep time. Inspired by the earthy scent released when rain meets dry stone, the exhibition brings together marble, alabaster, limestone, calcite, and chlorite sculptures that evoke marine organisms, from ancient microbial formations to deep-sea creatures. Sciarrino reflects on the limits of human understanding and the complex relationship between encountering the natural world and intervening in it.
The need for the right light
With cutting-edge contemporary works by some of the most dynamic artists working today, the gallery requires a lighting environment as adaptable and uncompromising as the art itself. By choosing Lumicrest, the gallery ensures that every texture, depth, and subtle tonal shift is experienced exactly as the artist intended.
With Lumicrest’s flagship Apturi III Gallery track lighting system, the gallery now has lighting with museum-grade 97+ Colour Rendering Index (CRI), full beam adjustability and on board dimming for precise lux control. While common commercial lights can flatten dynamic works and distort subtle hues, Lumicrest’s high-CRI LEDs reveal true, vibrant colors without the risk of UV degradation or heat damage.
By trusting Lumicrest, the Daniel Faria Gallery joins a prestigious roster of Canadian institutions such as the Royal Ontario Museum, the Art Gallery of Ontario, and MOCA, who rely on Apturi III luminaires to bring their most important exhibitions to life.
“…all the intricate details”
“Lumicrest’s Apturi III gallery track lights revealed all the intricate details of the natural stone and the subtle nuances of Jennifer’s carvings in ways we hadn’t seen before. Plus, they were able to adapt their track connectors to fit our specific track system, so we didn’t have to change anything.“
The Apturi III is a premium gallery and museum fixture with high-grade adjustable optics and 97 CRI colour rendering. With fully adjustable beam angles and onboard per-fixture dimming, Daniel Faria Gallery staff could quickly and precisely fine-tune each work and balance gallery light against the works’ own internal illumination in the mixed-luminance rooms. Each fixture delivers 1,400 lumens of rich, accurate light, with strict colour-variance control so every unit matches across spotlighting, wall washing, and dimming.
Gallery professionals, photographers, and visitors alike noted the clarity of the light and the consistency of the colour rendering across the show.
Learn more and view the work of Jennifer Rose Sciarrino: Petrichor displayed at Daniel Fariagallery at: www.danielfariagallery.com/exhibitions/petrichor
All images provided by LF Documentation
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Experience True Colours with High CRI Lighting
CRI is a measure of how complete and accurate the colour spectrum is in a beam of white light, and how well colours will be represented when illuminated by that light. The higher the CRI the better.
LED lights typically found in big box stores typically have a CRI of around 80 or sometimes 90.
A CRI above 90 is considered the minimum for use in an application where accurate colour rendering is a required, such as in art galleries, museums or retail apparel displays.
So if it’s important to you that all the colours in your art, furniture, retail displays etc. be vibrant and fully visible, then you want the highest CRI possible … Continue reading
Apturi III: All luminaires in the Apturi III family are beam-adjustable, which means you can adjust them at any time from a 10° spotlight to a 60° wall-wash floodlight. No changing lenses, Apturi III lets you do it with a flick of the wrist.
For lights with a dedicated beam angle such as Modulux, please see the video below for selecting the lens:
When to choose a wide beam lens and when to choose a narrow beam lens? This video helps you understand the differences and make the best choice.
As well, this handy Beam Angle Calculator helps you determine the spread of different beam angles and positions for your light fixtures.
Need to change the lens on a Lumicrest LED light? Watch this short video on how to swap the lenses on Lumicrest LED lights.
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The “colour temperature” of any white light indicates the shade of white.
Very Warm White – Warm White – Soft White – Natural Soft White – Natural White – Pure White – Cool White
(actual colour may vary due to screen settings, best to see in-person)
“Warm white” generally means a yellow-ish type of white, and “cool white” means a blue-ish kind of white. Somewhere in between lies “daylight white”, which is pretty much the whitest kind of white. Cool, warm and daylight are pretty imprecise terms though. A more accurate system indicating the tint of the light is called the colour temperature, or Correlated Colour Temperature (CCT).
A standard incandescent lightbulb is rather yellowish at about 2,700K and a normal halogen is slightly “cooler/whiter” in color, about 3,000K.
For interior lighting in homes, especially in the Western world we have grown accustomed to incandescent and halogen lighting, so we have a comfort with the “warm” colours they produce.
In more industrial settings, and for higher intensity lighting ie. “high bay” lighting, higher color temperatures of 4,500 to 5,000K are accepted. Metal Halide lights (HID) have traditionally been employed for this application, but of course LEDs are now available to do this job more efficiently.
Some specialty applications such as jewelery case lighting often use “cool” bluish lights of 6,500K or higher, in order to accentuate the sparkle and clarity of diamonds, silver and jewels.
Integrated Track Heads are mainly 3000K (as it’s the most popular CCT).
2700K is similar to the color of a regular incandescent or halogen light, which looks a little yellow or “warm”. 3000K is a little bit more white, but is still in the “warm” range. 4000K is approaching sunlight colour temperatures, but still a bit on the warm side. …Continue reading