California artist Jennifer Shifflet is dedicated to an ongoing visual exploration of the ethereal and the ineffable, of the fleeting qualities of light and life. Moving from painting and photography to work in kiln-formed glass, she has, over the past twenty years, pursued a fascination with fluid and liminal states. The subject is consistent with her Buddhist-influenced understanding of the world as at once unified and endlessly shifting; for Shifflet, light and color function not only as perceptual elements, but also as indices of life and death. In oil panels comprised of layered fields of radiant hues, and close-up photographs depicting glittering particulate surfaces, she exploits the properties and implications of the gradient to reflect and encourage a slowly transformative experience of looking. Citing influences from Monet, Turner, and Rothko to Agnes Martin, Mary Corse, and the Light and Space artists, Shifflet suspends the viewer in a luminous, oneiric world.