Faculty Highlights | Luc Demers

UMA Assistant Professor of Art, Luc Demers, recently gave a talk about his work included in the show “Energy in Flux” at the Maine Museum of Photographic Arts which runs Oct. 4 through Dec. 7, 2024.

Regarding his works included in the show, Luc said, “I am interested in how we use photography to understand what we see, and how we see. For the past several years I have been exploring ways to make photographic color studies of ambient or available light. I have always found the light that spills into a room through a window captivating, particularly the ever-changing light that casts onto the ceiling. Reflected sunlight carries the colors of the world outside onto the pale paint of the ceiling and walls. These photographs were taken of the light cast on the ceiling above windows throughout my house.”

luc demers, color cast # 1, 2022, inkjet print on rag paper, 16 x 20 inches,
Luc Demers, color cast # 1, 2022, inkjet print on rag paper, 16 x 20 inches.
luc demers color cast 4 2022 inkjet print on rag paper 16 x 20 inches
Luc Demers color cast 4 2022 inkjet print on rag paper, 16 x 20 inches.

Luc Demers is an artist living in Southern Maine. He holds a BFA in art from USM. While pursuing his personal work, he began working as a commercial photographer as well as shooting editorial work for The Casco Bay Weekly and The Maine Times. In 2010 he earned his MFA in Visual Art at Vermont College of Fine Arts. Currently, Demers is an exhibiting artist, freelance photographer, and is an educator in the first year sequence in UMA’s Architecture Department.