James Turrell: A Retrospective explores nearly fifty years in the career of James Turrell (b. 1943, Los Angeles), a key artist in the Southern California Light and Space movement of the 1960s and 70s. The exhibition includes early geometric light projections, prints and drawings, installations exploring sensory deprivation and seemingly unmodulated fields of colored light, and recent two-dimensional work with holograms. One section is devoted to the Turrell masterwork in process, Roden Crater, a site-specific intervention into the landscape just outside Flagstaff, Arizona, presented through models, plans, photographs, and films.
Turrell's play with light and perspective. This circle would change shapes depending on the angle you would look at it. It would toy with your sense of perspectives at times thinking it was an endless hole while at other moments like it was protruding out.
The same idea with this shadow and perspective of this square! At certain angles it would seem that it was pulling in while at others out. We were told by another patron that if you stare at the corner as you walk around this, you can see a bend in the square. As hard as I tried I never saw it!
Sometimes you see things and sometimes you don't! The point was to stop trying to figure out what you are seeing and just see it. In other words, does it matter weather it's coming out or going in... only what YOU see is what matter. I know! I'm confusing myself.
A poltergiest moment. A lot of feels very out of this world and extra terrestrial!
These are small replicas of what
James Turrell has been transforming into a work of perceptual and celestial art since the late 1970s in the Roden Crater in Flagstaff Arizona.
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