JAMES TURRELL
James Turrell is an American artist primarily concerned with light and space. He is represented by The Pace Gallery in New York. Turrell is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater, located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, where he is turning a natural cinder volcanic crater into a massive naked-eye observatory.
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It must have been two semester’s ago when I stumbled across James Turrell in a magazine and I remember the first time I saw this image I was fascinated by the ambient colors and visuals of this image. It drew me to learn about James Turrell and association with what is known as the Light and Space movement, which began in Southern California in the mid-1960s.
Building on his early research into sensory deprivation (particularly the Ganzfeld effect, in which viewers experience disorienting, unmodulated fields of color), his art encourages a state of reflexive vision that he calls “seeing yourself seeing,” wherein we become aware of the function of our own senses and of light as a tangible substance. From an audience perspective James Turrell installations are designed to manipulate the viewer’s perception, creating environments where light become’s almost sculptural.
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