Matthew Schreiber’s immersive laser light installation Crossbow is named after a roller coaster in New Jersey. Reminiscent of optical devices found in novelty stores and 1970s sci-fi films, Schreiber’s environment reaches back to a not-so-distant past in which technology seemed to promise utopian visions of a brighter future. His work is part of an artistic tradition of light art that dates back to at least the beginning of the twentieth century: artists like El Lissitzky and Lázló Moholy-Nagy experimented with light in sculptural and architectural works in the 1920s and ’30s; Southern California’s Light and Space movement in the ’60s included James Turrell and Robert Irwin; and more recent light art examines both spectacle and its relationship to our contemporary existence, like the Johnson’s own Cosmos installation by Leo Villareal. Through the presentation of light in space, Schreiber’s Crossbow might make time and place seem temporarily suspended, reminding us of a fundamental aspect of art.