Karma gallery in New York has opened 'Norman Zammitt: A Degree of Light', the first New York exhibition in nearly 60 years dedicated to the late Light and Space movement artist. The show features two key bodies of work: his laminated-acrylic pole sculptures and hard-edge 'Band Paintings', reintroducing Zammitt's pioneering colorist practice to a contemporary audience. Zammitt, who died in 2007, was a Canadian-born artist of Mohawk and Italian descent who studied at Otis College of Art and Design and was represented by Felix Landau's gallery in Los Angeles.
The exhibition matters because it rescues a significant but overlooked figure from the margins of art history, highlighting the contributions of West Coast artists to a movement often dominated by names like James Turrell and Robert Irwin. Zammitt's work, which explored visual perception and material experimentation, reflects the core ethos of Light and Space—an experience that dissolves boundaries between art and atmosphere. By presenting his work in a major New York venue, the show challenges the historical primacy of the New York art scene and broadens the canon of 1960s American art.