Exploring the themes of light, innovation and optimism, Into the Light, a juried exhibit now at Honfleur Gallery, brings together a well rounded group of talent that showcases various mediums, including photography, sculpture and installations. Artists Mark Planisek, Marie Cobb, Lynn Silverman, Craig Kraft, Emily Erb, Phil Stein, Joan Belmar, Cathlyn Newell and Kendall Nordin are all showcased. The exhibit is very dynamic as it presents the artists and their different media thoughtfully and uses the space to it’s maximum. Installations and sculptures find display space in small special venues, including the nook above the stairs.

As you enter the gallery you are confronted by Incense, a collaborative installation from a church in Baltimore. Colorful origami boxes hang from the second floor ceiling and flutter and spill onto the first floor in a cascade of color. Each box is made from a prayer that a member of the congregation wrote on a piece of colorful paper and folded into one of the boxes. The piece is whimsical yet reverent.

A highlight of the show are the shadow boxes by Mark Planisek (pictured). Small collaged boxes of various shapes and depths contain photographs of different settings of windows, hallways and doorways. Each photograph is from the building where Planisek’s old studio was located. Determined to document the building, Planisek has captured light at its most dramatic times of the day, showing off the harsh angles and shadows that he found. Some of the scenes extend beyond the center of their box and cover the outside plains, too, blurring where the piece starts and ends. The overhang of the boxes create their own shadows that interact with the shadows from the photographs and as you move, the view shifts and the shadows play across the work, constantly changing how you experience it. It is a simple concept executed beautifully.