Recent major projects include A Cloud Index, a site-specific commission for the new Elizabeth line station at Paddington in London (2022) Orion, permanently installed at the San Francisco Airport, CA (2020) Moon Dust (Apollo 17), Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2019) Fifteen Stones (Ryoanji), an intervention in the International Pavilion at the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, Spain (2018) Lost Man Creek, his project with the Public Art Fund, Brooklyn, NY (2016-2018) Trying To Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning, a special commission for the 9/11 Memorial, New York, NY (2014) A Certain Slant of Light, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY (2014) Peindre la nuit, Centre Pompidou, Metz (2018- 2019). He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, Hamilton College, and Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, and has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally since the early 1990s. Spencer Finch was born in 1962 in New Haven, CT and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. For Finch art can do more: it can ‘ignite our capacity for wonder.’” “Like the ancient practitioners of the hermetic arts, who saw change as the most fundamental truth of the universe,” Cross continues, “the artist doesn’t always provide an answer in his investigations. Perhaps most seen is The River That Flows Both Ways (2009), an installation on New York’s High Line in which an existing series of windows is transformed with 700 individual panes of glass representing the water conditions on the Hudson River over 700 minutes in a single day. Lunar (2011), commissioned by the Art Institute of Chicago, is a large sculpture that harnesses the power of the sun, gathering energy during the day and releasing that energy as a glow at the precise color temperature of a full moon. Important early commissions include Painting Air, an installation made for the artist’s 2012 survey at the RISD Museum of Art, in which more than 100 panels of suspended glass of varying reflectivity refract and distort an abstract mural inspired by the colors of Claude Monet's garden at Giverny. Instead, his dogged method reinforces the fleeting, temporal nature of the observed world, illustrating his own version of a theory of relativity.” “Contrary to what one might expect,” writes Susan Cross in the monograph for the artist’s 2007 solo exhibition What Time Is It On the Sun? at MASS MoCA, “Finch's efforts toward accuracy-the precise measurements he takes under different conditions and at different times of day-resist, in the end, a definitive result or single empirical truth about his subject. With both a scientific approach to gathering data and a true poetic sensibility, Finch’s installations, sculptures and works on paper filter perception through the lens of nature, history, literature and personal experience. Ilchman is the MFA Boston’s curator of paintings.Spencer Finch pursues the most elusive and ineffable of experiences through his work- from the color of a sunset outside a Monument Valley motel room to the afternoon breeze by Walden Pond, the shadows of passing clouds in the yard of Emily Dickinson’s home or the light in a Turner painting. The exhibition was co-organized by the MFA Boston and the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William & Mary. The exhibition, which is on view through July 9, includes 15 works by 15th-century Florentine master Sandro Botticelli, as well as works by Filippo Lippi, Antonio del Pollaiuolo, Jacopo del Sellaio and more. Louis, the Guggenheim and more.įrederick Ilchman has organized the Museum of Fine Arts Boston’s showing of “Botticelli and the Search for the Divine,” the largest exhibition of Botticelli paintings ever shown in the United States. His work is in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Kemper Museum of Art in St. At MASS MoCA, Finch’s Cosmic Latte (2017) is on view at least through 2018.įinch’s work typically addresses light and its relationship to memory at specific geographic locations, and often specific times. He has fulfilled commissions for and had exhibitions at The Morgan Library, the Rhode Island School of Design, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Pulitzer Arts Foundation (then the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts), the Corcoran Gallery of Art and more. Spencer Finch is presenting two new installations at two venues on opposite sides of the United States: His The Western Mystery (2017), a commission from the Seattle Art Museum for its Olympic Sculpture Park, is up through March 3, 2019. 292 of The Modern Art Notes Podcast features artist Spencer Finch and curator Frederick Ilchman.
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