James Turrell in "Spirituality"
James Turrell
From his Quaker Meeting House to his Roden Crater project, James Turrell has devoted his life to capturing the ethereal properties of light and its powers to evoke transcendence and the sublime. Pursuing his vision at a great sacrifice, Turrell wryly comments “People often ask me how much this crater costs. It cost me two marriages and a relationship.”
This segment focuses on two works in Houston, Texas—an underground tunnel of light and a skyspace in the ceiling of a Friends meetinghouse—in addition to Turrell’s life’s work in Arizona’s remote Painted Desert—Roden Crater.
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James Turrell was born in 1943 in Los Angeles and currently lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. He received a BA in psychology from Pomona College in 1965 and an MA in art from Claremont Graduate School in 1973. Influenced by his Quaker upbringing, and interested in the relationship between light and space, the artist creates installations and architectural structures that use natural light and artificial color to manipulate the experience of seeing. In doing so, Turrell’s art evokes feelings of transcendence and the sublime, encouraging viewers to practice contemplation, patience, and meditation.
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