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Soraa Perfectly Illuminates Glass Art at the Crocker Art Museum
[October 26, 2016]

Soraa Perfectly Illuminates Glass Art at the Crocker Art Museum


Soraa, the world leader in GaN on GaN™ LED technology, announced that its full visible spectrum LED lamps were installed to illuminate the Sacramento-based Crocker Art Museum's exhibition "Glass for the New Millennium: Masterworks from the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection".

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Soraa announced that its full visible spectrum LED lamps were installed at the Sacramento-based Croc ...

Soraa announced that its full visible spectrum LED lamps were installed at the Sacramento-based Crocker Art Museum's exhibition "Glass for the New Millennium: Masterworks from the Kaplan-Ostergaard Collection". (Photo credit: Suzanne Hambleton, Right Light Images)

"When illuminating glass, color rendering is the most important element. You must have true, accurate colors to bring out the best in glass," said Matthew Isble, Exhibit Designer and Chief Preparator for the Crocker Art Museum. "We wanted something in the 3000K range that would mimic sunlight. Soraa LED lamps perfectly light the art glass pieces, making them sing."

In putting together this important show, Isble and the team from the Crocker reviewed and tested LED lamps from four different companies. As they narrowed down their choices, the Crocker team opted to visit Soraa's LED fabrication facility in Fremont, Calif. Ultimately they chose Soraa VIVID™ MR16 and PAR 38 LED lamps for the exhibition.



"Glass for the New Millennium" challenges how the public perceives mass, volume and form of glass. Surveying the work of 70 dynamic global artists who push the medium's boundaries, the exhibit included important pieces from the 20th century studio movement, such as the life-sized, figural forms of Karen LaMonte, cast-glass abstractions of Richard Whiteley, and the expectation-shattering sculptures of Masahiro Asaka and Christina Bothwell.

"We needed a light source to make the glass come to life, bringing out the shapes, forms and colors. Soraa's LED lamps illuminate glass beautifully," said Isble. "At the Soraa facility, the company's production team explained how their LEDs are made. It was clear to us that the Soraa team members are serious about perfect lighting."


Utilizing every color in the rainbow, especially deep red emission, Soraa's lamps render warm tones beautifully and accurately, and achieve a color rendering index (CRI (News - Alert)) of 95 and deep red (R9) rendering of 95. Unlike blue-based white LEDs without any violet emission, the company's lamps have violet emissions to properly excite fluorescing brightening agents in natural objects. Soraa's GaN on GaN™ LED technology renders the widest range of colors in the objects that we see, without ultraviolet (UV) or infrared (IR) radiation that can fade or harm the art and artifacts.

The Crocker Art Museum uses Litelab fixtures, and plans to replace all other lighting as it flickers or yellows throughout the facility with Soraa LED lamps.

Soraa LED lamps have also been installed at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum, Victoria and Albert Museum in London and Historical Museum of Bamberg in Germany. For more information on Soraa's LED lighting products, please visit: www.soraa.com.

Photo credit: Suzanne Hambleton, Right Light Images

About The Crocker Art Museum

The Crocker Art Museum was the first public art museum in the Western U.S. and is one of the leading art museums in California today. Established in 1885, the Museum features one of the country's finest collections of Californian art, exceptional holdings of master drawings, a comprehensive collection of international ceramics, as well as European, Asian, African, and Oceanic (News - Alert) art. The Crocker is located at 216 O Street in downtown Sacramento. For more information, visit crockerartmuseum.org, or follow @crockerart on Twitter (News - Alert), Facebook, and Instagram.

About Soraa

Pioneering lamps using LEDs built from pure gallium nitride substrates (GaN on GaN™), Soraa has made ordinary lighting extraordinarily brilliant and efficient. Soraa's full spectrum GaN on GaN™ LED lamps have superior colour rendering and beam characteristics compared to lamps using LEDs created from non-native substrates. Founded in 2008, Soraa is located in Fremont California, where it manufactures its GaN on GaN™ LEDs in the company's state-of-the-art facility. Please visit www.soraa.com and follow us on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, and LinkedIn.


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