James Turrell “Projections 1967–1968”

The Pace Gallery (32 E 57th St)

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[Image: James Turrell "Afrum, Pale Pink" (1968) projection, installation dimensions variable. Photograph by Florian Holzherr © James Turrell, courtesy Pace Gallery]

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Pace Gallery presents Projections 1967–1968, a two-venue exhibition of James Turrell’s landmark light projections from the late 1960s. The exhibition will be on view from May 6 to June 18, 2016, spanning Pace’s galleries at 32 East 57th Street and 534 West 25th Street. An opening reception will be held at the 25th Street Gallery on Thursday, May 5 from 6 to 8 p.m.

Projections 1967–1968 coincides with an exhibition of works by Turrell, which will inaugurate Pace’s new gallery in Palo Alto and be on view from April 28 to July 30.

Projections 1967–1968 is the first exhibition in more than a decade to focus exclusively on Turrell’s first light works. The exhibition will include a selection of early light works and schematic drawings by Turrell from the late 1960s, highlighting the artist’s investigation of color, light, perception and space.

Upon moving into a vacated hotel in Santa Monica in 1966, Turrell began experimenting with high-intensity projectors, using them to modulate space and the eyes’ perception of it. The result of these endeavors was his corner projections, the artist’s first significant works using light as a medium to create the appearance of free-floating, three-dimensional objects suspended in the corners of a room.

Turrell created variations on all of his projections, exploring the relationship between form and color. The exhibition will feature Afrum, Turrell’s first projection. A projection of a cube floating in a corner, Afrum synthesizes Turrell’s interest in art history—Suprematism especially—with more psychological and phenomenological pursuits. Variations of the work are included in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

James Turrell (b. 1943, Los Angeles) has been the subject of over 160 solo presentations at museums worldwide. In 2013, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, jointly presented a three-venue survey of Turrell’s work. LACMA’s retrospective later travelled to the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. In 2015, Houghton Hall, Norfolk, United Kingdom, presented an exhibition of its extensive holdings of Turrell’s work, and the artist’s first Skyspace in Mexico opened in Jardín Botánico Culiacán in Sinaloa. Meeting (1986), Turrell’s site-specific Skyspace installation at MoMA PS1, will reopen this summer.

Turrell’s work is included in more than ninety international public collections, including Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, among others. His Roden Crater, located in a dormant volcanic cinder cone in the Painted Desert region of Northern Arizona, is the culmination of his research in the field of visual and psychological perception. An ongoing project since 1977, the large-scale, immersive work will be a site for experiencing and contemplating light, time and landscape. Turrell’s numerous awards include a MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (1984); Chevalier, L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France (1991); Commandeur, L’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (2006); and National Medal of Arts, Washington, D.C. (2014). In November 2015, he was the honoree at LACMA’s 2015 Art + Film Gala.

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from May 06, 2016 to June 18, 2016

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James Turrell

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