The character of light: Lighting designer encourages creative thinking Sep 10, 2008
He has worked with internationally famous visual artists James Turrell and Robert Irwin, and he had an association with Andy Warhol. But he says his "major contribution" was helping to develop the energy code followed by all commercial lighting designers, known as the ASHRAE/IES Standard 90, during the energy crunch of 1975. (Hillsdale Independent, NY)
Calvin Klein, Inc. Turns 40 Sep 6, 2008
Additionally, and as a centerpiece to this unique event, acclaimed artist James Turrell -- referred to as a 'sculptor of light' -- has been commissioned to create one of his brilliant, signature Space Division light installations within Pawson's structure. B-ROLL: Red carpet celebrity guest arrivals and soundbites, 40th Anniversary highlights, views from the High Line, photo stills and more. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Anish Kapoor challenges perceptions in a mind-bending show at the ICA May 30, 2008
And America's own poet of light and space, James Turrell, has made great play with the ambiguities suggested by colored voids. But Kapoor has mined this terrain more convincingly and inventively than most. (Boston Globe)
All their eggs in one basket May 10, 2008
Southern Exposure includes pieces by relatively well-known artists such as Ed Ruscha, Bill Viola, James Turrell, Chris Burden, Robert Irwin and Vija Celmins, as well as works by younger-generation figures such as Glenn Kaino or Kota Ezawa. As is so often the case with such surveys, the overall impression belongs to the category of "not bad". (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Mattress Factory hardly a snoozer for newcomer Jan 21, 2008
There are three James Turrell light sculptures; "Danae" and "Catso, Red" mesmerize me with their takes on light and form, but sitting in a pitch-black room for 15 minutes to experience "Pleiades" -- during which light may (or may not) be playing with my eyes and mind -- kick-starts my New York paranoia, especially when Jeffrey tells me the Mattress Factory has no security measures. I think of Sondheim, reminding us that "art isn't easy.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Conservatory wants state OK for bonds Jan 14, 2008
The additions to the Palm House, which include a new entrance, event space, dressing rooms for weddings, a catering area and rooftop gardens, are on track to open in September, he said, as are the bride's garden and a project by artist James Turrell to illuminate the Palm House at night. AmeriFlora redux. (Columbus Business First, OH)
Citrus Town's Got Zest Jan 6, 2008
The museum at Pomona College is currently featuring an exhibit by alumnus James Turrell, who plays with the viewer's perception of light. An outdoor installation on campus - entitled "Skyspace" - is magical at sunrise and sunset, when shifting colored lights on a canopy contrast to a slice of the heavens. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Small but so chic Dec 21, 2007
LA's famed Mondrian commissioned artist James Turrell to create light-based installations on every floor; though on a lesser scale, the effect works nicely here. Our executive room is on the top floor at the front of the building. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Napa's Secret Art Cave Dec 4, 2007
San Francisco couple Norah and Norman Stone, already renowned in jet-set circles for their playful personas and modern art collection, created even more of a stir when they unveiled the cave - and a new experiential water and sky sculpture by James Turrell - to the art world and friends at a splashy party over the last weekend of October. Like other homeowners who outgrow their residences or amass too much stuff, they needed an add-on. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Roden Crater: Peaking inside Turrell's unfinished work Dec 1, 2007
James Turrell purchased the Roden Crater in 1979 to carve out chambers ... And, what is proving to be most challenging, visit the Roden Crater, an extinct volcano northeast of Flagstaff, Arizona, that James Turrell has been transforming into a work of perceptual and celestial art since the late 1970s. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Nauman lights up exhibition at Warhol Oct 31, 2007
While Dan Flavin and James Turrell are the cool minimalist and placid metaphysician, respectively, of light as a medium, Bruce Nauman plays upon its flash, gaudy allure and relationship to pop and commercial culture to challenge complacency. Readers may remember Nauman's neon piece from the 1985 Carnegie International, "Having Fun/Good Life/Symptoms," in which irony and word play mixed with spiraling rainbows of illuminated color, promising merriment and then poking the viewer's sensibilities... (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Light, space are magical in Irwin's exhibition Oct 27, 2007
Like James Turrell who is concurrently having an exhibition at the Pomona College of Art in Claremont he introduced new media to heighten the viewer's experience of space and light, both inside and outside the museum. Irwin is an eloquent philosophical-minded speaker about his work and an inspiring one, too. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
The age of wonder Oct 22, 2007
Some might see formidable competition in the form of, say, James Turrell or Edward Ruscha. Davies has been convinced of Irwin's standing for decades. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Remote terrain forms the canvas for stark land artworks Sep 24, 2007
"Roden Crater" by James Turrell: Since 1972, a work in progress. Famous for his "skyspaces," Turrell mined a 380,000-year-old crater near Flagstaff, Ariz. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Traditional Santa Fe embraces future Aug 11, 2007
A derelict World War II tank garage next door is being turned into the Munoz Waxman Gallery, overlooked by a glass mezzanine; the James Turrell "SkySpace" in the grounds said to be the first he ever built, 21 years ago will soon be reopened to the public. Even the city's food has felt the shock of the new. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Travel)
Playing with the past while examining the fault lines of memory Jun 22, 2007
Unlike the light and space works of James Turrell, which do create magically illusory experiences, Finch's works don't appear to be anything other than what they are. It takes a certain effort of imagination to experience what Finch's works are supposed to re - create. (Boston Globe)
Postmodern practicalities put the door back in the forefront May 23, 2007
The new scheme will deliver all these, plus a crowd-pleasing James Turrell Skyspace in front, streetside. All white marble and escalators, it may smell and feel like an airport. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Five best ... walks with a difference Mar 31, 2007
You could easily spend three hours wandering through the 500 acres of 18th-century parkland, admiring the Goldsworthy installations as well as works by Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth, and James Turrell. . (Guardian Unlimited -- Travel)
Adventurous artists of light at Hirshhorn (Joanna Shaw-Eagle) Mar 3, 2007
The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden shows several modern takes on light as art -- unfortunately containing only a few arresting examples -- with "Refract, Reflect, Project: Light Works From the Collection." Associate curator Anne Ellegood recentlydelved into the Hirshhorn's cache of "light sculpture" and found such art from the late 1950s to today by notables Dan Flavin, James Turrell, Ivan Navarro, Hiroshi Sugimoto and Chryssa but also less impressive art by Jordan Belson and Giovanni... (Washington Times)
Scottsdale galleries make Arizona an art zone Jan 1, 2007
Allow time to soak it all in, and don't miss the "skyspace " designed by James Turrell, where an open-air skylight plays with the light and prism-like windows line a hallway. Contemporary art is also the focus of the Upper Marshall Way galleries, and while anytime is a good time to browse and explore, the weekly Thursday-evening Arts Walk, a 30-year tradition, adds a festive environment. (Boston Globe)
The 'vision' thing Dec 10, 2006
In an adjacent room, what appears to be a disembodied rectangle of pure red light hovers in darkness, a magical mirage produced with surprisingly simple means by the eminent light sculptor James Turrell. Midway through the show we enter the realm of the mediated body. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Dive in. The water's fine. Dec 7, 2006
In "New Light," James Turrell plays with shadow and colored light to throw your perceptions off. What you initially see is not what's really going on. (Boston Globe)
Now, that's a bright idea Dec 2, 2006
Artist James Turrell, famous for his massive crater project in an Arizona desert, tells how he plans to animate a downtown Toronto high-rise ... It's like our monument to the recession, says Jane Perdue, public-art co-ordinator at Toronto City Hall, and one of those responsible for shepherding into existence the forthcoming project on that site by noted American artist James Turrell. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
MODERN LEADER Nov 27, 2006
The James Turrell light piece, set to open on Dec. 15, will take up an entire gallery for at least a year. Impractical. (Buffalo News -- Entertainment)
Acclaimed artist turns his attention to a downtown office development Nov 22, 2006
Internationally acclaimed American artist James Turrell, best known for his massive reconfiguration of a volcanic crater in the Arizona desert, has set his sights on downtown Toronto. Mr. Turrell, who was in town yesterday speaking at the University of Toronto, will create a work of public art for Brookfield Properties' forthcoming Bay Adelaide Centre, a high-end office tower in the city's business district slated for completion in 2009. (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
From Auto Trader to art lover Nov 14, 2006
" Louise Blouin MacBain was lifting the delicate white cup to her perfectly plump lower lip, savouring the moment. I sensed collagen injections, but I knew my mind should have been on higher things. It was mid-October, and we were seated alone in the spectacularly sun-filled caf? of her new mini-museum, the Louise T. Blouin Institute, on the fringes of the fashionable Notting Hill district of London. This was the morning after the public opening of her new gallery, and she looked absolutely... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
The eyes have it in super-sized show Sep 10, 2006
Baume has tapped 27 contemporary artists of international stature, including James Turrell , Mona Hatoum , Anish Kapoor , Jeff Koons, and Ed Ruscha , for an exhibition more ambitious in size and scope than the ICA could ever have previously mounted. Super Vision" starts off caressing the optic nerve.``Rather than looking at a painting with vanishing- point perspective, you have to move around the art physically in order to see and understand it," says Baume. (Boston Globe -- Living)
Exhibit spans generational gap Aug 4, 2006
REVIEW / Yerba Buena Center for the Arts' 'Cosmic Wonder' exhibition reaches across a generational gap. " In more static and philosophical terms, Misrach's do also. Other pieces, such as Hanna Fushihara Aron and David Aron's "Purifying Structure in a Garden of Light and Sound" (2006), call for detached observation that turns ironic almost instantly. Yet others, such as Jose Alvarez's painting-like panels encrusted with minerals, seem torn between the private obsession of a hobbyist and the... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Placenotes offers handy guide to U.S. cities Jul 14, 2006
Artist James Turrell (a practicing Quaker) completed a roof sculpture that retracts to create a frame for the void of the sky, and the silent procession of clouds, moon and stars. . (McAllen Monitor, TX)
ARCHITECTURE: Now you see it, now you don't Jun 15, 2006
Sculptor James Turrell, whose subterranean camera obscura was recently installed in the new De Young's sculpture garden, is included, and San Francisco landscape architect George Hargreave's Guadalupe River Park near San Jose is another example that amplifies ideas of new, ecologically sound public space and of nature as architect. Hargreaves recently presented ideas for public spaces above new, higher levees in New Orleans at a conference in the Netherlands. (San Francisco Chronicle)
What's the BIG IDEA? May 6, 2006
"Table and Six Chairs' in the Albright-Knox Art Gallery is the latest example of an artist believing that size matters By RICHARD HUNTINGTON News Critic5/5/2006 BILL WIPPERT/Buffalo News BILL WIPPERT/Buffalo NewsRonald Balden's piece next to One HSBC Center, left, is a contemporary example of a massive outdoor sculpture. Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty," center, dips into the Great Salt Lake, while Jeff Koons groomed his "Puppy" using flowers, earth and steel. It was some 40 years ago that Carl... (Buffalo News)
10 things to do this weekend May 5, 2006
GAZE. The University of Illinois at Chicago just opened its public SKYSPACE OBSERVATORY designed by artist James Turrell. Head to the UIC Skyspace at Earl L. Neal Plaza on South Campus for a "celestial vaulting" view, meaning you can see the sky without a horizon line. (Crain's Chicago Business)
Touching the void Mar 20, 2006
In Los Angeles she met legendary light artist James Turrell at a party, and since he was from Arizona, she mentioned that she had a show coming up at Arizona State University. I said, 'They're going to take me to the Grand Canyon,' " Burko recounts. ''He said, 'You need to fly in. If you want, I'll fly you in.' ". (Boston Globe)
East Meets West on the Champs-Elysées Mar 10, 2006
Other art installations throughout the store by legendary American artist James Turrell, described in a Vuitton press release as "an architect of light," and video maverick Tim White-Sobieski, an abstract "painter of motion," call on the latest technology to instill the place with a video-game atmosphere. Shopping the Vuitton flagship is fun. (BusinessWeek)
Risque art exhibition proves latest trend for Paris fashion house Jan 13, 2006
Even the shop downstairs incorporates some bold works, such as the video wall by James Turrell, an American artist whose main medium is light. "We don't want to limit ourselves," says Mr Carcelle. (BBC News -- Europe)
Rocks of ages Jan 7, 2006
American artists who share his interest in space and time have famously recreated ancient art on a Stonehenge scale: James Turrell claims direct inspiration from the Stone Age for his natural observatory in a crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, and the colossal dimensions of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty in Utah make it one of the post-1960s works that will always capture imaginations. Long has, for nearly 40 years, made a gentler, more English, yet equally romantic version of this new Neolithic... (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
