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"Second Meeting"James Turrell

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May 17, 2013

James Turrell revisits his installation Second Meeting (1989) at a private residence in Los Angeles, California. As one of his first skyspaces, Second Meeting was originally installed at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles in 1986.

Turrell describes what initially attracted him to working with light and how skyspaces encourage a closer examination of our visual perceptions. “I want to bring the space of the sky down to the top of the space you’re in so that you really feel to be at the bottom of the ocean of air,” says Turrell. “You really then experience this quality that can happen at the change of day to night and night to day.” Second Meeting was preceded by a similar work titled Meeting which has been on public view at MoMA PS1 in Queens, New York since 1986.

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Producer: Ian Forster & Eve Moros Ortega. Director: David Howe. Camera: Marc Levy. Sound: Neal Doxsee. Editor: Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: James Turrell, Clifford Einstein & Mandy Einstein.

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James Turrell was born in 1943 in Los Angeles and currently lives in Flagstaff, Arizona. He received a BA in psychology from Pomona College in 1965 and an MA in art from Claremont Graduate School in 1973. Influenced by his Quaker upbringing, and interested in the relationship between light and space, the artist creates installations and architectural structures that use natural light and artificial color to manipulate the experience of seeing. In doing so, Turrell’s art evokes feelings of transcendence and the sublime, encouraging viewers to practice contemplation, patience, and meditation.

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