Lloyd Burlingame (b. 1934) began his career as a designer for theater legends including Franco Zeffirelli, Peter Brook, and David Merrick, then joining New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts as Chair of Design and Master Teacher for twenty-six years — eighteen of them legally blind. Facing irreversible vision loss in his 40s, Burlingame turned his attention to large-scale abstract paintings and multimedia fabric collages. This period of “making art while the sun shines” resulted in 72 major paintings and multimedia works, many of which are displayed in Summer Energy: Works 1962-1987.