Erwin Redl

Erwin Redl was born in the year 1963 in Austria. In Vienna, Austria, Redl studied to be a musician and also received his Bachelors of Art at the Music Academy. He then took his schooling over the United States, where he received his Masters of Fine Arts at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. Redl now currently lives in New York. Erwin Redl is most famous for using LED(light emitting diode) lights in an artistic way. Redl takes his art both two dimensional as well as three dimensional. After looking at some of Redl's pieces, I never thought to consider this art. I just figured that it came with designing the building.

Redl is famously known not only in just the United States but also in other countries around the world. He became very well known after Matrix VI(first picture above) that is displayed on the front entrance to New York's Whitney Museum of American Art in 2002. Another work of Redl that came before Matrix VI was Matrix II(second picture above). This is one of Redl's most popular pieces of work and has a dimension of 36 ft x 26 ft x 12 ft. Matrix II has been displayed in many different countries including Germany, France, South Korea, and Austria. One other piece of work that has become famous within the United States is Redl's work called Nocturnal Flow(photo below). You can see Nocturnal Flow at the Paul G. Allen Center in Washington. The piece Nocturnal Flow is made up of 10,000 LED lights that cover a eighty-five foot floor to ceiling wall.