Ron Reihel constructs surfaces that hold light after it is gone.

Working in Los Angeles since 1990, Reihel has developed a proprietary luminescent composite that absorbs, retains, and slowly re-emits ambient light. His work does not depict space; it generates it.

Where earlier West Coast Light and Space artists dematerialized the object to foreground perception, Reihel re-materializes light — embedding luminosity within materially grounded planes that continue to transform long after illumination shifts.

He describes this method as "insinuating space."