James Turrell is American artist, born in Los Angeles in 1943 to a Quaker mother and a father who was a school administrator. James attended Pomona College, where his studies concentrated on psychology and mathematics. He later received a master’s degree in Art from Claremont Graduate School.
James work 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.
Turrell is best known for his work in progress, Roden Crater. He acquired an extinct cinder cone volcano located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1979. Since then he has spent decades moving tons of dirt and building tunnels and apertures to turn this crater into a massive naked-eye observatory for experiencing celestial phenomena.
Turrell work can be colourful and it really is something that interests me and It could be a idea for me to experiment for this Moving Image Installation
References
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/nov/11/james-turrell-more-people-have-heard-of-me-through-drake-than-anything-else
http://web.guggenheim.org/exhibitions/turrell/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Turrell
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