Born & raised in Metro Detroit, Lee’s family were Vietnam war refugees, with origins from Hong Kong. He grew up drawing behind the counters of his family’s Chinese herbal pharmacy & has spent the last 11 years painting over 270+ murals in Michigan and abroad for a variety of local businesses, nonprofits, restaurants, schools, & corporations. His passion for painting large scale & bringing people together brings him great joy. He enjoys creatively transforming an environment into a more memorable space & experience.

Scherzer lives in Toledo, Ohio and currently teaches art at Fremont Ross High School in Fremont, Ohio. Much of his recent work has been organizing/engaging communities and youth in public-art making. He also creates large-scale murals and art installations. As a matter of both profession and ambition, he pursues ways to engage youth and the general public in the arts, and furthermore engage other artists in art making. He is compelled to combine his art practice with his many tangential interests and daily discoveries, the results of which are often both novel and familiar. Through the diversity of his creations he manifests the spoils of his research, experimentation, and creativity.

At the same moment, ponder our own star and its life – its every glow and color as it casts beams of light through the shadows, illuminates the clouds, and glows color across the sky. Be this cause to mourn or to celebrate, we cannot overlook the beauty of it all. Even at night, the sun’s light bounces off the moon and in our view, looking up, a lineage of light extending back to the origins of the universe. A lasting light seemingly suspended in time.

This mural and lighting installation is an appreciation of the light in our lives and the immensity of time it represents. In the scope of human life, the light of stars is forever. In that, we experience light from the origins of our universe while simultaneously seeing light that has only just begun its journey.

Tony Lee captures light in an homage to the Impressionists. His mural captures a moment in time – rendering a painterly image highlighting graceful strokes in the daylight. Bradley Scherzer interprets the images of deep space captured from Earth by NASA’s Webb Telescope. He channels light through his renderings of starlight and projects them atop the mural at night in a cosmic dance.