"Spencer Finch will change how you look. The Brooklyn-based artist doesn't just create captivating art objects; he invites visitors to notice the color of light in the gallery itself - a specific spectrum that can transport you to a different time and place. If you've never experienced a Spencer Finch installation, I highly recommend a visit to his current exhibition "One Hundred Famous Views of New York City (After Hiroshige)" at James Cohan gallery in New York, on view now through October 4, 2025."
"All from Finch's "haiku series," each consists of three vertical LED lights (resembling fluorescent light tubes) wrapped in colorful filters. The total combination of light that each casts into the room perfectly matches the daylight from a different time and place, measured by the artist. The works on view here are each from a different season - winter through autumn - allowing you to walk through the light of a full year in a single hallway."
"The biggest work in the gallery has a similar light-changing precision. "Moonlight (Reflected in a Pond), 2025" consists of dozens of blown-glass panels that lean against an existing wall of windows in the gallery. These accurately translate sunlight into a measured moment of moonlight in New England as it reflected off a pond. Perception meets imagination in a work as intelligent as it is beautiful. And note"
Spencer Finch creates light sculptures that match precise spectra of daylight and moonlight measured from specific times and places. Four vertical LED works from the haiku series use three columns of colored filters whose combined projection reproduces daylight from winter through autumn, allowing visitors to walk through a year's light in a single hallway. Each haiku work contains 17 colored sections reflecting the 5-7-5 syllabic structure and includes visual hints such as small orange sections recalling falling oak leaves. Moonlight (Reflected in a Pond), 2025 uses dozens of blown-glass panels to translate sunlight into a measured moment of New England moonlight reflected on a pond.
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