Barbara Kasten is a contemporary American artist whose work investigates light and perception through photographs of elaborately constructed acrylic sculptures. Employing mirrors, colored-gels, stage lights, and translucent angled surfaces, the artist’s sculptures transform through photography into gem-like abstractions. “For my earliest Constructs, made in the 1970s, I built life-size, trestle-like forms to work in tandem with mirrors. I designed and photographed these structures with the aim of upsetting normal conceptions of how perspective should work,” she explained. “I considered the Constructs to be similar to stage sets, and my photographs of them look like impossible landscapes.” Born in Chicago, IL in 1936, Kasten studied painting...