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James Turrell (born May 6, 1943) is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. He is considered the "master of light" often creating art installations that mix natural light with artificial color through openings in ceilings thereby transforming internal spaces by ever shifting and changing color.
James Turrell (born May 6, 1943) is an American artist primarily concerned with light and space. Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984. Turrell is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, a natural cinder cone crater located outside Flagstaff, Arizona that he is turning into a massive naked-eye observatory.
In the Arizona desert, James Turrell is creating one of the most ambitious artworks in American history. Here’s an exclusive look. The Alpha (East) Tunnel leading toward the Oculus—an opening...
James Turrell. American Sculptor. Born: May 6, 1943 - Los Angeles. Movements and Styles: Light and Space. , Earth Art. , Installation Art. , The Sublime in Art. "There is a rich tradition in painting of work about light, but it is not light - it is the record of seeing.
James Turrell has dedicated his practice to what he has deemed perceptual art, investigating the materiality of light. Influenced by the notion of pure feeling in pictorial art, Turrell’s earliest work focused on the dialectic between constructing light and painting with light, building on the sensorial experience of space, color, and perception.
Jun 2, 2024 · James Turrell, American artist known for work that explored the relationship of light and space. Regarded as one of the founders of the mid-1960s California Light and Space Movement, Turrell invented signature forms that intensified the experience of sight and perception.
Since the 1960s, James Turrell has created an expansive body of work that offers profound revelations about perception and the materiality of light. With their refined formal language and quiet, almost reverential atmospheres, his installations celebrate the optical and emotional effects of luminosity.
Jun 21, 2013 · James Turrell’s first exhibition in a New York museum since 1980 focuses on the artist’s groundbreaking explorations of perception, light, color, and space, with a special focus on the role of site specificity in his practice.
James Turrell (born May 6, 1943) is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. He is considered the "master of light" often creating art installations that mix natural light with artificial color through openings in ceilings thereby transforming internal spaces by ever shifting and changing color.
Since the late 1960s, the American artist James Turrell has made installations, or ‘perceptual environments’, using natural or artificial light as his raw material. When the Hayward Gallery held...
