James Turrell

Painter

James Turrell was born in Los Angeles, California, United States on May 6th, 1943 and is the Painter. At the age of 80, James Turrell biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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May 6, 1943
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United States
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Los Angeles, California, United States
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80 years old
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Taurus
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Artist, Land Artist, Photographer
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Pomona College, University of California, Irvine, Claremont Graduate University
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James Turrell Life

James Turrell (born May 6, 1943) is an American artist primarily concerned with light and space.

In 1984, Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow.

Turrell is best known for his latest work in progress, Roden Crater, a natural cinder cone crater outside Flagstaff, Arizona, that is turning into a major naked-eye observatory.

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James Turrell Career

Artistic career

Turrell began working with light in his Mendota Hotel in 1966, right around the time when the so-called Light and Space group of artists in Los Angeles, including Robert Irwin, Mary Corse, and Doug Wheeler, came to prominence. Turrell's first light projections were achieved by covering the windows and only allowing prescribed amounts of light from outside the street to enter through the door. He used screened partitions in Shallow Space Constructions (1968), allowing a radiant effusion of concealed light to create an artificially flattened effect within the given space. He spent a year with the Los Angeles County Museum's Art and Technology Program, looking at perplexities with artist Robert Irwin and psychologist Edward Wortz.

Sam Francis made sky drawings in 1969, using colored skywriting fire and cloud seeding materials. Turrell's pivotal location, from 1969 to 1974, The Mendota Stoppages, a defunct building in Santa Monica, was sealed off, with the window apertures controlled by the artist to allow natural and artificial light to penetrate the dimened rooms in specific ways.

Turrell discovered an epoch cinder cone volcano outside Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1979. Since then, he has been busy turning this crater into a massive naked-eye observatory for celestial phenomena.

A completion date for the Crater has been announced and postponed several times since the 1990s. The last time Turrell or his staff went on record discussing a deadline was 2011, but "nobody volunteers a date any more," according to a Los Angeles Times article from 2013. Roden Crater has long been shrouded in secrecy and access limited to friends of the artist, although supporters have climbed in without the artist's permission. More recently, a service was developed in which devoted followers can be granted permission by completing the "Turrell Tour," which includes a Turrell visit to 23 countries around the world, and Roden Crater was open to a select group of 80 people at a cost of $6,500 per person.

Turrell does not consider himself an earthworks artist like Robert Smithson or Michael Heizer "You could say I'm a mound builder." "I make things that take you up into the sky." However, it isn't about the landforms. I'm trying to bring celestial objects like the sun and moon into the spaces we live in. "I applaud light; I make events that shape or contain light," he said.

Turrell began a series of "skyspaces" enclosed spaces open to the sky through an opening in the roof in the 1970s. A Skyspace is a large enclosed room that holds up to about 15 people. The viewers sit on benches along the roof edge to see the sky through a window in the roof. Turrell, a lifelong Quaker, conceived the Live Oak Meeting House for the Society of Friends, with an opening or skyhole in the roof, wherein the concept of light takes on a decidedly religious sense. (See PBS' PBS documentary). His work (1986) in the United States. The 1, which consists of a rectangular opening cut directly into the ceiling, is a recreation of such a meeting house. Greet the Light, Turrell's latest Quaker skyspace at the newly renovated Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting in Philadelphia in 2013, a new Quaker skyspace.

Jori Finkel writes in a New York Times article about L.A. collectors building skyspaces in their backyards, describing it as a "celestial viewing room" that gives the appearance that the sky is within reach, stretched like a canvas across a ceiling opening.

The Irish Sky Garden at Turrell opened in 1992 in Skibbereen, Co Cork, Ireland. The massive earth and stoneworks' crater is at its zent. A visitor enters the rim through a doorway, climbs stairs to enter, then lies on the central plinth and admires the views flanked by the crater's rim. "The most important thing is that the inside turns into outside and the other way around, in the sense that the Irish landscape and sky changes," James Turrell said.

Turrell created a "sky room" and pool for Nora and Norman Stone in Napa Valley in 2001, where visitors swim through a tunnel into the outdoor pool, where an aperture in the roof provides a stunning view of the sky.

Third Breath, 2005 by Turrell, is part of the Centre for International Light Art (CILA) in Unna, Germany. It is a camera obscura made up of two rooms: The visitor observes an image of the sky in the lower, cubic room (Camera Obscura Space), which is seen through a lens on the ground. The sky can be seen directly through a hole in the ceiling in the upper, cylindrical room (Sky Space).

Three Gems (2005) at the De Young Museum is Turrell's first Skyspace to be converted to the stupa form. The Marquess of Cholmondeley ordered a folly to the east of the great house at Houghton Hall in Norfolk. Turrell's Skyspace appears on the exterior as an oak-clad building raised on stilts. The viewer's interest is naturally drawn upwards and eventually lured into contemplating the sky as framed by the open roof.

Both water and landscaping are included in Turrell's Dividing the Light (2006). This Skyspace pavilion is an open-air pavilion with a canopy roof, opening and aperture, lighting scheme, pool, and landscaping, and landscaping, located in Pomona College's Draper Courtyard. The canopy aperture, which is 16 feet (1.5 meters), mirrors the continuous pool below, which is surrounded by granite seating and landscaping. "One of the finest works of public art in recent memory" at its opening, Los Angeles Times writer David Pagel called it "one of the finest works of public art in recent memory."

The Deer Shelter Skyspace in Yorkshire, commissioned by The Art Fund in 2007, was named recipient of the 2007 Marsh Award for Excellence in Public Sculpture.

The Kielder Skyspace (2000) in Kielder, Northumberland, England; Knight Rise (2001) at the Salzburg Museum of Contemporary Art; the second Wind (2006) in Salzburg, Austria; the Skyspace Lech (2008) in La Brech; and the Friends Seminary (2023).

Turrell invented an indoor pool in Connecticut for collectors Lisa and Richard Baker, which gives the appearance of swimming in a mirrored light box.

In 2009, the first museum in the province of Salta, Argentina, was opened. It is part of the Hess Collection at Colome. The light art works depict five decades of the artist's life, including a time tunnel, and are on display in a series of nine rooms within a 1,700-square-foot (18,000 sq ft) space. The journey comes to an end with a touching reminder of Turrell's exhibited sky spaces, which are built within the museum's inner courtyard, and the views of the Andean sky at sunrise and sunset.

Turrell is also known for his light tunnels and light projections, which make shapes that seem to have mass and weight, though they are made with only light. Three of Turrell's (Dana), Catso Red, and Pleiades) permanent installations at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The Welsh National Museum of Art acquired Turrell's 1968 reproduction of a suspended luminous pink pyramid, Raethro Pink. Acton's work is a very popular exhibit at the Indianapolis Museum of Art. It's a room with a blank canvas on display, but the "canvas" is really a rectangular hole in the wall, which has been lit to look otherwise. Guards are known to approach unsuspecting tourists and say, "Touch it!"

Touch it!"

Turrell's paintings defy some people's "accelerated" habits, particularly when it comes to art. He claims that viewers spend so little time with the art that it is impossible to appreciate.

Turrell's works, according to art critic John McDonald, are "dull to say but magical to experience."

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