![]() Artwork © Spencer Finch, courtesy of Lisson Gallery. If it is, then you might as well have a photograph. Except, it’s beautiful, it’s poetic, and it’s kind of scientific.Ī great artwork is not exactly what it seems to be. This is actually a rendering of different parts of that garment, but it appears to be something abstract, almost even a bit nonsensical. This is a beautiful red garment that is so exquisitely painted that it entranced him, and he started making a record of all the different variations of color in his garment: the folds, how it is catching the light, so on and so forth. What he’s rendering here though is a painting that he saw in the (Museo del) Prado at Madrid, by the famous Spanish Old Master Diego Velazquez. What you see here, literally, is what they seem to be – drops of paint dripped onto paper. Nicholas Logsdail: Spencer Finch, you might call in a certain sense a poet, a conceptual artist, a painter, or an idea artist. Like a French Impressionist painter on a day visit from Boulogne, American artist Spencer Finch observed the ever-changing tone and colour of the Channel during his visits to Folkestone over several weeks throughout 2010. In the current diptych, it’s as if we see the molecular trace of the Pope after he went through a Star Treck-like energizer. In Finch’s abstracted retelling there seems to be less personal involvement and therefore we don’t get a sense that he tells us his personal opinion on the controversial Pope, as did Bacon. Spencer Finch’s approach differs from Bacon’s in the way they see the object itself. The Velasquez masterpiece has been the subject of interpretation not only by Finch, but most famously by Francis Bacon who depicted the seated Pope in a much more sinister and fragmented narrative. As we found out Finch essentially resampled an iconic 16th century masterpiece ‘ Pope Innocent X‘ by Diego Velazquez and the resulting cluster of abstracted dots is a Contemporary reduction of the well-known portrait. The artist, known for working on a monumental scale and utilizing a wide range of more industrial materials in his work, selected a more traditional medium for this diptych on view at the gallery’s booth at The Armory Show. This is a part of the Wikipedia article used under the Creative Commons Attribution-Sharealike 3.0 Unported License (CC-BY-SA).Nicholas Logsdail, Founder and Director of the eponymous Lisson Gallery, London talked about one of Spencer Finch’s most abstract works to date. For his work, "Trying To Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning," Finch hand-painted 2,983 squares of Fabriano paper - one square in a unique shade of blue for every person killed in the September 11 attacks and in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center. Creative Time worked with the artist to realize the site-specific concept that emerged when he saw the rusted, disused mullions of the old factory, which metal and glass specialists Jaroff Design helped to prepare and reinstall.įinch was chosen to create the only work of art commissioned for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Each color is exactly calibrated to match the center pixel of 700 digital pictures, one taken every minute, of the Hudson River, therefore presenting an extended portrait of the river that gives the work its name. The work is integrated into the window bays of the former Nabisco Factory loading dock, as a series of 700 purple and grey colored glass panes. For example, Moonlight (Luna County, New Mexico, July 13, 2003), replicates the exact light of the full moon that shone over the desert of Luna County, New Mexico on the evening of July 13, 2003.Ĭreative Time, Friends of the High Line, and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation commissioned The River That Flows Both Ways to Spencer Finch as the inaugural art installation for the High Line Park. After measuring with a colorimeter the light that exist naturally in a specific place and time, Finch's re-constructs the luminosity of the location through artificial means. He is perhaps best known for dealing with the elusive concepts of memory and perception through light installations. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.įinch produces work in a wide variety of mediums, including watercolor, photography, glass, electronics, video and fluorescent lights. Working in watercolor, drawing, sculpture, photography, and installation, Spencer Finch attempts to faithfully recreate his impressions of natural phenomena and the landscapes that surround him. The first retrospective of his work, which ended in March 2008, was assembled at MASS MoCA in North Adams, MA. in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating in 1989. in comparative literature from Hamilton College in 1985. After attending The Hotchkiss School, he graduated magna cum laude with a B.A. Spencer Finch (born 1962 in New Haven, Connecticut) is an American artist.
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