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    Painting Air: Spencer Finch

    Painting Air: Spencer Finch

    Presented by RISD Museum at RISD Museum

    February 24-July 29, 2012

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    Internationally acclaimed artist Spencer Finch “tests the limits of visual perception” (New York Times) and is known for his investigations of light and color. Combining science with poetic observation, he brings new awareness to the natural and built worlds in which we live.

    In this major two-part show, Finch creates an expansive, site-specific new installation—also titled Painting Air— that recalls his recent visit to Monet’s water garden in Giverny, France. One hundred panels of suspended glass become a lens to view a color-filled, 150-linear-foot mural; light shifts across the highly-reflective surfaces of the gently swaying panels, evoking the movement of Monet’s pond and transforming viewers’ perspectives from one moment to the next. Other recent works find inspiration in Finch’s studies of Franz Joseph Glacier in New Zealand and Thoreau’s Walden Pond; reveal a color that only honeybees can see; and capture 8,456 shades of blue—a response to Scottish philosopher David Hume’s musings on “the missing shade of blue.”

    Finch’s profound connection to Monet runs deeply through both sections of the show, and the Museum’s Basin at Argenteuil, 1874 , is an aesthetic touchstone that ties the two parts together. As a RISD graduate student, Finch copied the light-filled composition—and his studies of Monet continue to inform his creative process to this day. Delving further into the Museum’s collection, Finch curates a selection of more than 60 pieces—ancient objects to late-20th-century art—creating thematic groupings that reveal links and contrasts between artists, unexpected visual connections among disparate works, and his own personal sensibility.


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        RISD Museum

        20 North Main Street
        Providence, RI 02903

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        Tickets:

        Members, children under 5: free
        Adults: $10
        Senior citizens (age 62+): $7
        Youths (ages 5-18): $3
        RISD, Brown students, faculty, staff: free
        College students with valid ID: $3

         

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      • Dates & Times

        Dates:
        February 24-July 29, 2012

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        Tuesday through Sunday, 10 am-5 pm
        Thursdays, 10 am-9 pm

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