James Turrell’s most interesting projects
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Born in Pasadena, California, on 6 May 1943, James Turrell is a color theory and light artist. He’s a respected figure of the Light & Space movement. A big chunk of his career as a light artist has been spent creating currently-unfinished artwork Roden Crater, which are colored cinder cones.
The majority of his completed works include holographs and colored light installations that wow the viewer with attention-grabbing optical illusions. Although they are made up of just light, these visual art pieces look like tunnels, pyramids, flat planes, and cubes. His work has been exhibited in numerous institutions across the globe, including the Museo Jumex, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He was the 1984 MacArthur Fellow.
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With an art career that began in the 1960s, James Turrell is a common name in art circles for his extensive works. He has an obvious fascination with light that is projected in the way he materialized the concept of light. The general style of Turrell is a combination of two grand ideas; even non-traditional
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James Turrell has always awed us with his out of the world light art. Since his first creations 48 years ago, he has never looked back. His designs have ever been on another level. Turrell combines architecture, technology, and artistry to build awesome designs. He cites his work as a mission to enhance people’s visual
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