ARTIST

James Turrell

1943 · United States

Turning an Arizona volcano into a naked-eye observatory, Turrell makes light itself the subject of art.

ABOUT

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. Much of Turrell's career has been devoted to a still-unfinished work, Roden Crater, a natural cinder cone crater located outside Flagstaff, Arizona,…

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NOTABLE WORKS
First Light: Gard 1989 · Cleveland Museum of Art
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