This exhibition is now closed
First Sight: Spencer Finch
11 October –
30 November 2008
Spencer Finch Icecave Fox Glacier 2008. Fluorescent tube and gels. Reproduced courtesy of the artist
Made in Dunedin on a recent residency, First Sight is renowned New York artist Spencer Finch's response to the ice caves, rivers and changing light of the south of the South Island.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery touring exhibition.
In early 2008 New York artist Spencer Finch travelled to Dunedin to take part in the Dunedin Public Art Gallery's Visiting Artist Programme.
The result of his six-week residency was First Sight, a response to the light and landscape he encountered in the south of the South Island.
As the title First Sight suggests, Finch brought together a series of artworks that test, contemplate and record his response to an unfamiliar physical and cultural environment.
By focusing on seemingly rudimentary things such as sunlight, weather patterns, colour, shadow and dust particles, Finch not only reveals how our environment is in a constant state of flux; he also compels us to think about the complex relationship between the moment of looking and our memory of that moment.
A Dunedin Public Art Gallery touring exhibition.
My Gallery
Location:
Tait Electronics Gallery
Exhibition number: 808