Cloud Study (Cumulus Mediocris), 2010
Scotch tape on paper
23 3/4 x 32 inches
La Grande Jatte (Bouquet), 2023
Acrylic on birch plywood panel
29 3/8 x 25 1/8 x 1 3/4 inches
Cummulus humulis (Île de la Grande Jatte), 2023
Scotch tape on museum board mounted to dibond
40 x 55 inches
Red (After Velázquez) V, 2011
Ink and watercolor on paper
65.5 x 47 inches
Color Notes (Summer), I, 2020
Watercolor on paper
Set of 25 notes
7 x 7 inches, paper (each)
9 x 9 inches, frame (each)
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 was born in 1962 in New Haven, CT and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He studied at the Rhode Island School of Design, Hamilton College, and Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan, and has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally since the early 1990s.
Recent major projects include A Cloud Index, a site-specific commission for the new Elizabeth line station at Paddington in London (2022); Orion, permanently installed at the San Francisco Airport, CA (2020); Moon Dust (Apollo 17), Baltimore Museum of Art, MD (2019); Fifteen Stones (Ryoanji), an intervention in the International Pavilion at the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, Spain (2018); Lost Man Creek, his project with the Public Art Fund, Brooklyn, NY (2016-2018); Trying To Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning, a special commission for the 9/11 Memorial, New York, NY (2014); A Certain Slant of Light, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY (2014); Peindre la nuit, Centre Pompidou, Metz (2018- 2019). Significant solo exhibitions include Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT (2018-2019); MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (2017); Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL (2017); Seattle Museum of Art, WA (2017); Turner Contemporary, Margate, United Kingdom (2014); Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence, RI (2012); Art Institute of Chicago, IL (2011); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA (2011); Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA (2011); Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (2010); Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France (2010); Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2009) and MASS MocA, North Adams, MA (2007).
Finch was included in the 2004 Whitney Biennial, the 2008 Turin Triennale and the 53rd Venice Biennale (2009). His work can be found in collections including the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Morgan Library, New York, NY; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia; Kemper Museum of Art, St Louis, MO; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, amongst several others.
New York-based artist Spencer Finch is holding his first China solo exhibition "Forever is composed of Nows" at Lisson Gallery Shanghai through October 28.
The National 9/11 Museum & Memorial has a special fondness for “sky blue.”
Spencer Finch is interested in shifting light, both as a subject and as an artistic method. He is fascinated with changes in light at different times of the day and year, from one location to another, and with how light shifts as it is refracted through atmosphere, clouds, and windows, or reflected in different surfaces. To explore these changes in his work, he employs a variety of transparent, tinted, translucent, reflective, and diaphanous materials that alter or shift the quality of light. Ultimately, he wants to create what he calls “constantly changing optical events,” where light is continually shifting.
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.