A poetic survey of work by American abstract photographer and educator Carlotta Corpron, “Light Is a Plastic Medium” spotlights six bodies of work produced in Texas between the late 1930s and the early 1950s. Within her photographic artworks, Corpron—an art history and design teacher at Texas State College for Women (now Texas Woman’s University)—explores the relationship between light, form, perception, and reality. Corpron adheres to principles established and investigated by Chicago’s New Bauhaus in the late 1930s. Organized by Hirshhorn Assistant Curator Betsy Johnson, the exhibition incorporates 48 recent gifts to the museum by Herbert Lust, as well as additional loans from his collection.