Spencer Finch
| Type | Artist Male |
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| URLs | Wikipedia Artist's page |
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| Award | 2014 | Cultural Leadership Award | American Federation of Arts | Metropolitan Club, New York, USA |
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| Art in Public Space | 2009 | The River that Flows Both Ways | The High Line, New York, USA | ||
| Group exhibition | 2009 | Spencer Finch - Moonlight (Venice, March 10, 2009) | Venice Biennale | Venice, Italy | |
| Solo exhibition | 2003 | PARIS/TEXAS 2003 | ArtPace | San Antonio, Texas, USA |
Places of residence
Brooklyn, New York, USA
Education
Providence, RI, USA
Rhode Island School of Design, M.F.A. in Sculpture
Education
New York, USA
Hamilton College Clinton, B.A. in Comparative Literature
Education
Kyoto, Japan
Doshisha University
Born
New Haven, Connecticut, USA
Spencer Finch uses a diverse range of mediums to investigate the ways in which history, memory, and sensory perception conflate and mutually influence. Working in painting, photography, and installation, Finch is best known for producing large-scale sculptural installations that filter or transform natural light or create synthetic light effects. Finch attempts to recreate his impressions of natural phenomena and landscapes, leaving his materials visible so that the constructs underlying his optical illusions are laid bare—as in Sunset (Over the Atlantic), 2004, a curving space installed with glass, tiles, and tubes of fluorescent light. “There is always a paradox inherent in vision, an impossible desire to see yourself seeing,” Finch has said. “A lot of my work probes this tension; to want to see, but not being able to.” Finch observes, documents, and studies with scientific precision (often using a colorimeter) the color and light effects of specific locations.
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Moonlight (Venice March 10 2009) | 2009 | Spencer Finch | |
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The River That Flows Both Ways | 2009 | Spencer Finch | |