The Bulbox series, by Leo Villareal, is a progression of small-scale light works that use highly artificial technological processes to provoke intuitive, emotional responses from the viewer. The quality that emerges from each work is organic, and relates to the need to seek a pattern or understanding in forms that are at once methodical, natural and mysterious in appearance. Their rhythms alternate between chaos and order as the pieces hypnotically throb and pulsate. Points of diffused light drift in and out of synchronous patterns as each work 'breathes'. Villareal's work almost always uses a continuously variable system, exploring the 'analog' in its most fundamental sense. Many of the artist's works are very large in scale, created specifically to engulf the viewer in a particular atmosphere or environment. The Bulbox series is an attempt by Villareal to place a small piece of this discipline in one's living environment; an attempt to create a small 'beacon' of his process in a wide variety of locations. In spite of the fact that the work is made of Plexiglas, light bulbs and computer chips, each piece has a very low-tech quality; a quality that is visceral in its aesthetic simplicity.

Leo Villareal has had solo exhibitions/installations at Sandra Gering Gallery, NY, PS1/MoMA, NY, Grand Central Station, NY, Conner Contemporary, Washington, DC, Galeria Javier Perez, Madrid, Finesilver Gallery, San Antonio, TX, the Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA (organized by Andrea Zittel), the Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY, the Jewish Museum, NY, Art In General, NY, Creative Time in the Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY and Sculpture Now, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL. He has been included in group exhibitions at the Texas Fine Arts Association, Austin, TX, The Fields Sculpture Park, Ghent, NY, the Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA, Derek Eller Gallery, NY, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, LA, the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY, White Columns, NY, Thread Waxing Space, NY, the CCAC Institute, San Francisco, CA, and the Tirana Biennale, Tirana. Leo Villareal is represented by the Sandra Gering Gallery, NY.