Opening spread Pink neon and ambient light of “The Light Inside” wash the walls of the Wilson Tunnel at MFAH. This spread The Skyspace at Live Oak Friends Meeting House provides a view of the sky through a 12-foot-square opening in the building’s roof. “The Light Inside” and “Arco” are part of the James Turrell retrospective at MFAH this summer.
PHOTOS OF “THE LIGHT INSIDE” AND “ARCO” COURTESY MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON.
on view at MFAH from June 9 through September 22, 2013. The exhibit is part of a group of exhibitions jointly conceived as concurrent shows at MFAH, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Guggenheim Museum in New York. The Wilson Tunnel will be the conceptual
Museum visitors can certainly cross the street to get from the Law Building’s Brown Pavilion to the Beck Building, but they generally choose to take the tunnel, enjoying the experience of being enveloped by Turrell’s work. core of the MFAH exhibit, and additional light-based installations will be featured in upper Brown Pavilion galleries. The exhibit will allow visitors to witness how light shapes space and becomes an entity unto itself. “Turrell was the first artist who really stated unequivocally that you can liberate the light from the source and make it the artwork,” observed Greene. Dusk on Saturday and Dawn on Sunday: “Twilight Epiphany” Skyspace at Rice University
Just before sunset, the lower level of Turrell’s most recent Houston installation, the “Twilight Epiphany” Skyspace at Rice University, is usually filled to capacity with about 40 visitors. Additional viewers mill around the second level mezzanine, and others scatter on the lawn beyond the steep angled berm that surrounds the space. In the 28 -foot-square lower level room, a bright white 72-foot-square ceiling seems to hover overhead.
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