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Holographic Exhibitions
Custom Holograms
One-of-a-Kind
Holographic Artworks
Limited Edition Reflection Holograms
Limited Edition Transmission Holograms
Open Edition Holograms
Holographic Nudes
Holographic Diffraction
Gratings
Nancy
Gorglione
Greg Cherry
What is a Hologram?
Cherry
Optical Holography's art by Nancy Gorglione and Greg Cherry is in the collections of Massachusetts
Institute of Technology (MIT) Museum; Milk River Museum, Canada; Sonoma
Museum of Visual Art, California; Museum of Holography, Chicago;
Museum of Holography, France; The Chunichi Shimbun, Japan; Museum fur
Holographie & Neue visual Medien, Germany (Matthias Lauk). Lawrence Hall
of Science, Berkeley, CA owns an exhibit room of 25 holograms; Tivoli
Gardens owns a display of our holograms; Franklin
Institute, PA.; Tech Museum, San Jose, California; Dupont Photopolymer
Division; Hugh's Aircraft; and others. Please see
Custom Holograms and
Exhibition pages for more information about collections and exhibits.
Laser
Scanning
Laser & Percussion Orchestra
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Cherry Optical Holography have a large collection of transmission and
reflection holograms available for sale or exhibition rental.
Cherry Optical Holography maintain a large silver halide holography
facility with great stability.
Our images are bright and beautiful, exhibiting mastery of the difficult
holographic media. Our holograms have a wide angle of view, and maximum
depth and projection.
Nancy
Gorglione and Greg Cherry are partners in Cherry Optical Holography.
Greg brings his considerable skills as prototype model maker and
photo-optics engineer to our holographic endeavors. His ability to
fabricate all types of optical mounts and devices has made our
holography possible. Nancy Gorglione brings to holography a lifetime as
an artist. Nancy was recognized at the age of six for her ability to
create beauty. She is accomplished as an artist, a poet, and
a musician. Together, Greg Cherry and Nancy Gorglione bring a
lifetime of skill, integrity and magic to the holographic media.
In our careers as holographic artists, we have explored many of the
unique aspects offered by holography. We are pioneers in the following
areas of holography:
Pseudocolor Control in Reflection Holography. Using swelling agents such
as triethanalomine, and good optical color registration, has allowed
Nancy
to explore incredible plays of color and harmonies in
reflection
holography. Since the hologram plays back in the color of the original
laser light, by swelling and shrinking the reflection holographic
emulsion before and between exposures, we can obtain a bright palette of
colors and hues.
Greg Cherry's mechanized Spin Coaters allowed us to quickly and fairly
reliably obtain even coatings of the triethanalomine swelling agent.
Eventually we returned to squeegeeing the plates with truck windshield
wiper blades, after emulsion hardness changes caused streaks in the
spincoated plates.
In 1982, Nancy Gorglione discovered that any two colors opposing each
other on a chromaticity chart can additively obtain white. Using this
method, she is able to obtain pastel shades and hues. Gorglione has
extensively explored plays of color through combining multicolor
reflection holograms into composite images.
Reflection Hologram Composites are unique compositions of multicolored
reflection holograms on glass plates. The individual holograms are
arranged together to form overall scenes of depth, with holographic play
of images from plate to plate. By adjusting all axis of reference beam
angle and divergence, Gorglione is able to achieve maximum angle of view
over a wide viewing area.
Gorglione and Greg Cherry developed a number of holographic diffraction
techniques which they call kinetic wallpaper. Diffraction
holograms use laser light as the object. Kinetic color shifts and
multiple points of light occupy depth and fluid movement in space. The
holographic diffraction gratings are combined in sculptures. Gorglione
and Greg Cherry also use specific holographic diffraction gratings to
create powerful laser light effects.
Nancy Gorglione has also explored the intrinsic ability of laser light
to form interference patterns in holography. Two exposures with slight
differences in the object being holographed results in fringe patterns.
Real time changing color mixtures can be obtained using double exposure
of the same object.
Gorglione has created a number of transmission holographic sculptures.
These freestanding or suspended pieces combine panels of large format
transmission holograms and diffraction holograms into integrated themes.
The large
format holograms are occasionally utilized as stage sets and
theatrical settings for theater and performance parties. Laser scanning
effects add scintillating colors and motion to the three dimensional
drama.
Greg Cherry has made a specialty of exploring holographic effects unique
to the hologram media. Real, three-dimensional motion from mechanized
objects; diffraction effects; and especially, space-within-space;
are all techniques Greg helped pioneer. Space within Space has been a
favorite creative effect Greg has pioneered and developed to a high art.
From his famous and oft-copied "Telescope" Hologram, through
"Painting Time and Space," Greg Cherry has inserted: holograms of
holograms; holograms of stereo-optic images, photographs and
three-dimensional sculpture; all within the holographic space of his
imagery.
Greg Cherry's images proved so popular, he made a short run photopolymer
hologram duplication machine. We also mastered for photopolymer
duplication for DuPont and Hughs Holographic Division.
Cherry Optical Company welcomes short run Custom Hologram clients. We
have made holograms for museums, science institutions, corporate and
private clients.
Exhibition of a wide variety of our holograms are available for rental
and other
exhibition considerations.
We've followed a parallel course
as the inventors and prototype
manufacturers of laser scan equipment. Through the non profit
auspices of Laser Affiliates, we produced the
Light Sound Motion Performance Series.
Multiple lasers and special lights choreographed with dance and
original music composed archetypal performances such as "Song of Ages"
and "Waveforms for Friends." This evolved into the Universal-Hologram
productions of the
Laser & Percussion Orchestra.
Our unique laser scanning
has now merged with sonic healing for emersion of senses into the realms
of gods.
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Basket of
Eggs, Reflection Hologram limited edition by Nancy Gorglione.
The basket handle projects out from the surface of the hologram,
exhibiting projection and parallax. 12" by 16".
Cherry Optical Holography mastering lab,
soon after it was built.
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Spider,
Multicolor Reflection Hologram by Nancy Gorglione.
Limited Edition, 4" X 5" This is a two color exposure of a
Tarantula. By varying exposure time and density of development,
Nancy has achieved tonal color variations within pseudocolor
control techniques.
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Lilies, Color Test
Multicolor Reflection Holograms by Nancy
Gorglione. These early explorations in color control
show varying colors dependent on exposure time and density of
development. The two original exposure colors, yellow and blue,
additively mix into a variety of colors. Gorglione
discovered slight variations in divergence and mis-registration
between exposures can result in incredible colors.
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City Lights,
A Multicolor Reflection Hologram Composite
by Nancy Gorglione. Nancy Gorglione discovered holography
when she was a stained glass artist. Her imagination and skill in
cutting glass has allowed her to create unusual glass hologram
shapes which add further dimensions to her holographic composites.
Holographic
Diffraction Grating from
"Language of Light" Series by Greg Cherry and Nancy Gorglione.
Deeply spacial holograms of very specific points of light in
space.
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Nude with Yantric Fringes,
Reflection Hologram
Nude by Nancy Gorglione. A double pulse from the laser resulted in
interference fringe patterns on the body of the reclining nude
woman.
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Echo Reflects,
Multicolored Rainbow Hologram by Nancy
Gorglione. Layers of collaged kodalith photographic
transparencies exhibit actively changing colors of fringe
patterns. In addition, moire patterns from the difference between
layers adds additional fringe movement to the art piece.
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Astral Gates,
Multicolored Diffraction Hologram
Freestanding Sculpture by Nancy
Gorglione. Holograms total size 40" H. by 48" W.
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Equus Underwater,
Partial Exhibition View at the
Exploratorium, San Francisco. 40 large format transmission and
reflection holograms were composed as a stage set. Laser Scanning
effects, visible through the transparent holographic panels, reinforced the exhibition theme.
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Painting Time and Space,
Space-within-Space Reflection
Hologram by Greg Cherry, 12" X 16" Real time mechanical animation of the
clock hands find time moving forwards and backwards. The
holographic space scene uses holographic space within holographic
space. The paint brush handle projects out of the surface of the
hologram.
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Goldfish in Coffee Cup,
Photopolymer hologram replicated by DuPont. Holographic Master
by G. Cherry and N. Gorglione. Close up of 11" by 15" hologram.
Laser
Chakra Device, Combines Laser Scanning
with some very special holographic diffraction gratings patterned
by the "Language of Light."
Laser & Percussion Orchestra, above.
The Laser & Percussion Orchestra drums and dances, entrained by
the laser scenario.Please
visit the Laser Scanning page, as
Nancy Gorglione has produced a number of laser performances, while
Greg's electro-optic devices produce powerful moving laser patterns.
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