Moonlight (Venice, March 10, 2009), 2009; Filters and tape; dimensions variable; Installed for Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, Venice Biennial, 2009
Moondust (Apollo 17), 2009; 150 light fixtures and 417 incandescent light bulbs; dimensions variable; Installation view at Fare Mondi/Making Worlds, Venice Biennial, 2009
After Atget, 2007; 7 flourescent lights, each with fixture and filters, pedestal; 120 x 5 x 5 cm each
Shadow, corner, Rue de Nevers (detail from the installation After Atget), 2007; Fluorescent light, fixture, filters; 120 x 5 x 5 cm
Abecedary (Nabokov's Theory of a Colored Alphabet applied to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle), 2004; Ink and watercolor on paper; 297 x 990 cm. Uses Nabokov's system of a colored alphabet to transliterate 9,251 characters from Heisenberg's text.
Detail: Abecedary (Nabokov's Theory of a Colored Alphabet applied to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle), 2004; Ink and watercolor on paper; 297 x 990 cm. Uses Nabokov's system of a colored alphabet to transliterate 9,251 characters from Heisenberg's text.
Orion, 2008; 17 glass globes, fixtures, lights; dimensions variable
Installation view: Thank you, Fog, 2009; 60 colour photographs; each 29 x 28,5 cm (framed); ed. 3 of 3
Composite view showing 9:31am, 9:40am, 9:49am details from: Thank you, Fog, 2009; 60 colour photographs; each 29 x 28,5 cm (framed); ed. 3 of 3
Sunlight in an Empty Room (Passing Cloud for Emily Dickinson, Amherst, MA, August 28, 2004), 2004; 100 fluorescent lights, filters, clothespins; dimensions variable.
56 Minutes (after Kawabata, Spring), 2006; 9 digital C-prints; each 17,5 x 17, 5 cm.
The Light Through My Window (Dusk, January 9, 2006), 2006; Fluorescent tube lights, fixtures and filters; 120 x 270 cm (diptych: 2 x 120 x 120 cm)
Spencer Finch was born in New Haven, Connecticut, in 1962, and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He has exhibited internationally since the early 1990s, and recently presented a mid-career survey exhibition titled "What Time Is It on the Sun?," at MASS MoCA, North Adams in 2007-2008. Other recent solo exhibitions include "Amabilis Insania," Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (2010), "As if the sea should part and show a further sea," Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane (2009), "Gravity Always Wins," Dundee Centre for Contemporary Art, Scotland (2008), "In Praise of Shadows," Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin (2007), "Through a Glass, Darkly," Museum of Modern Art Ljubljana (2005), "Mars Black," Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, and "Paris Texas," Artpace, San Antonio (both 2003). He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, most recently including "Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010), "Open Light in Private Spaces," 1st Biennial for International Light Art, Ruhr (2010), "Refract, Reflect, Project - Light Works from the Collection," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2007), "Light x Eight," The Jewish Museum New York, "Artificial Light," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, "Nichts," Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main, "The Paper Sculpture Show," traveling exhibition organized by ICI (Independent Curators International), New York (all 2006), "Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht," ZKM Karlsruhe, and "Colour After Klein," Barbican Art Gallery, London (both 2005). His work was also featured in the 53rd International Venice Biennale (2009) and the Whitney Biennial, New York (2004).
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