Tag Archives: James Turrell
Art That’s Big Because it Needs To be Big
Carsten Nicolai’s installation Unidsiplay presents the possibility of an infinite screen. Moving dynamically in an engulfing array of abstract shapes, the viewer is welcome to lose oneself within the screen. Sound familiar? Richard Serra’s more recent corten steel works are designed to solicit a visceral reaction. Their sheer size and imagined weight serving to emotionally flatten […]
Constructing Liquid Veils: An Interview with Claire Chesnier
Matthew Hassell: Where do you find inspiration for your compositions? Are they organically evolving through your process, or are they sourced from the outside world somewhere? Claire Chesnier: My compositions proceed from the avoidance of the edges of the paper facing me. The shapes I create result from a physical relation with the support: its […]
Ingesting the Light: James Turrell at Pace Gallery
James Turrell, long known for his work with light and space, has devoted more than four decades to creating a naked-eye observatory out of the cone of an extinct Paleolithic Era volcano located in Arizona’s Painted Desert. Roden Crater and Autonomous Structures opened at Pace Gallery last March in anticipation of the light artist’s exhibitions […]
