
Red (After Velázquez) V, 2011
Ink and watercolor on paper
65.5 x 47 inches
Following a Bee (Zinnias), 2020
Pastel and pencil on paper
40.5 x 60 inches, paper
44.125 x 63.625 inches, frame
Gutter (London) magnolia blossoms, 2019
Watercolor on paper
21 x 29.5 inches
24.25 x 32.25 inches, framed
Gutter (Brooklyn) coffe cup, listerine pack, cigaretter butt, bottle of urine, paper, leaf, potato chip bag, 2019
Watercolor on paper
21 x 29.5 inches
24.25 x 32.25 inches, framed
Gutter (Brooklyn) beer bottle, leaf, soda can, vitamin water, roll of duct tape, orange powder, yogurt lid, 2019
Watercolor on papr
21 x 29.5 inches
24.25 x 32.25 inches, framed
Fog (Penobscot Bay), 2017
Pastel and pencil on paper
41.125 x 52.5 inches, framed
Pacific Ocean, Stinson Beach, California, November 10, 2004 (noon effect), 2009
Watercolor on paper (fabriano exta white hot press)
22 x 30 inches, paper, 25.313 x 33.5 inches, framed
Desert Light (erg chebi, Sahra, morning effect) January 2, 2011, 2011
Lightbox
37 x 46 x 7.5 inches
Color Test (9), 2019
LED lightbox, Fujitrans
26 x 26 x 4.5 inches
Studio Window (infrared, morning effect, 3/10/18), 2018
Oil pastel on paper
30 x 30 inches
The sensation as I sit down in my studio chair #7, #8 & #9 (after Beckett), 2016
Pastel and pencil on paper
18 x 18 inches, paper, 20.75 x 20.75 inches, framed.
Vanitas (Tulips), 2012
Archival inkjet print
16.5 x 16.5 inches, each print
18.75 x 18.75 inches, each frame
Edition 2 of 3.
The Brain — is wider than the Sky (squared square of order 21 for Emily Dickinson), 2018
Collage on matboard
28.5 x 28.5 inches
Spencer Finch (b. 1962 New Haven, CT) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Finch received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his BA from Hamilton College Clinton, NY. Finch has exhibited internationally since the early 1990s, and recent solo exhibitions include The ‘I’ is the Mind of an Object (2021) at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack, NY; Only the band that erases writes the true thing (2021) at Lisson Gallery in London; The Enigma of Color (2021) at the Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin; Looking around, gazing intently, beholding (2020) at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago; Botanica (2019) at Galerie Nordenhake in Mexico City.
Finch completed several large-scale public projects including Trying to remember the color of the sky on that September morning at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City (2014); Moon Dust (2018), a long term installation at the Baltimore Museum of Art; When You Look on the River and Sky (2019) as part of Walt Whitman’s bicentennial celebration in Philadelphia; The Secret Life of Glass (2020) at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY; Orion (2020) at the Harvey Milk Terminal at The San Francisco Airport. His upcoming installation, A Cloud Index, is set to open this year at the Paddington Crossrail Station in London.
The artist is a recipient of the American Federation of Arts’ Cultural Leadership Award (2014) and his work is held in numerous museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Glasgow Museum of Art; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Morgan Library, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum, New York.
Want to see new art in New York this weekend? Start in the Lower East Side to see a tense group show about women, then head to Chelsea for Spencer Finch’s show at the Hill Art Foundation. Then slide over to Brooklyn to explore Nöle Giulini’s art made from kombucha.
The Crossrail project created a unique opportunity for public art on the Elizabeth Line.
Yayoi Kusama, Sonia Boyce and Richard Wright are among the artists who have created works for the 10 brand-new stations. London's long-awaited Elizabeth Line is finally here.
Through sculptural light installations, drawings and site-specific installations, Spencer Finch investigates ephemeral experiences and transforms them into sequences of color and light. Informed by his travels to various countries and by his own sensorial experiences of nature, music, and literature, Finch translates his observations of the world into two- and three-dimensional objects. In the spirit of scientific inquiry, Finch studies light and color, filtering his impressions through a personal cultural and historic lens. Finch’s work often reflects this dual approach of empirical study and subjective interpretation.
At the heart of the 9/11 Memorial & Museum’s mission is the promise to commemorate the 2,983 killed as a result of the 9/11 and February 26, 1993 attacks. The Memorial and the Museum fulfills this sacred responsibility in many ways—through memorialization, through education and, in some cases, through artistic expression.
In his current exhibition at Lisson Gallery (‘Only the hand that erases writes the true thing’, to 31 July), Spencer Finch presents new works which continue his long-running investigation of the subtle beauty and mystery of nature and our perception of it. The show contains fascinating considerations of snow, light and a mountain walk, as well as the clouds, fog and mistakes he discussed from his New York studio.
The artist's latest exhibition, “Only the Hand That Erases Writes the True Thing,” is now on view at Lisson Gallery, London.
Moon Dust (Apollo 17) transforms the BMA’s majestic Fox Court, evoking in viewers a sense of wonder. For the next seven years, museum visitors can enjoy the sublime light installation by Spencer Finch. For this episode of Art Matters, the New York-based artist spoke with BMA Director Christopher Bedford about Moon Dust and how the installation’s 447 lights and 150 fixtures are a scientifically precise representation of the chemical composition of moon dust gathered during the Apollo 17 mission. Listen to the Five minute interview by clicking here.
Spencer Finch opens Fifteen stones (Ryōan-ji) at Kyoto's “The Temple of the Dragon at Peace” as part of a program of artistic interventions at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion.
Review of Me, Myself, and I (A Group Show) at Berggruen Gallery.
Public Art Fund and Forest City Ratner Companies announce Spencer Finch: Lost Man Creek.
Review of Saturated Light at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.
Review of H2O at Rhona Hoffman Gallery.