Lot 118A
James Turrell (American, b. 1943). "Image Stone: Moon Side" six photogravure, aquatint, & lithographs on wove paper, 1999. Publisher's print. Each hand-signed with "P.P." written in pencil beneath image. Published by Segura Publishing Company, Tempe, Arizona, USA. An impressive ensemble of six publisher's prints from the "Image Stone: Moon Side" portfolio by the "master of light" American artist James Turrell. The lithographs depict images of the moon in four different phases - waxing gibbous/almost full, waxing quarter, waning quarter, and waning crescent - as well as the building plan at the celestial observatory chamber and a drawing of a moonstone. Though Turrell created many "Skyspaces" or enclosed spaces open to the sky through an aperture in the roof, the building plan shown here was likely for what eventually became the "Within without" Skyspace at the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. Size of largest image (Sun & Moon Floor Plan): 8.25" W x 12.25" H (21 cm x 31.1 cm); of sheet (all the same): 15" W x 18.375" H (38.1 cm x 46.7 cm)
One of Turrell's largest and most complex to date, this Skyspace included a central moonstone - portrayed in the drawing - that mimics the shape of the oculus above.
About the artist: "James Turrell was born in 1943 in Los Angeles. He graduated from Pasadena High School in 1961 and studied experimental psychology at Pomona College in Claremont, California, receiving a BA there in 1965. Having become interested in art, he enrolled in the graduate program at the University of California at Irvine. He created his first light piece, Afrum (Proto), the next year, in which light projected into the corner of a room seemed to form a three-dimensional, illuminated floating cube that resolved itself into flat planes of light only upon close inspection. Leaving school, Turrell took a studio in the former Mendota Hotel in Ocean Park, California, and began to make more projection pieces.
Turrell was given his first solo show at the Pasadena Art Museum in 1967. The following year, he began making constructions in which light shining out from behind one or more sides of a partition wall dissolved edges and changed the viewer's perception of space in a room. He participated in the Los Angeles County Museum's Art and Technology Program, investigating perceptual phenomena with the artist Robert Irwin and psychologist Edward Wortz. In 1969, Turrell made sky drawings with Sam Francis, using colored skywriting smoke and cloud-seeding materials. Mendota Stoppages, from this time, involved orchestrated sequences of light projected inside Turrell's darkened studio; the light, from natural and artificial sources outside, was admitted by opening and closing various apertures the artist had placed in the studio walls.
Turrell received his MA in art from Claremont Graduate School in 1973. The next year, he began work on his first large Skyspace, an aperture cut into the roof of a building that causes the visible plane of the sky to appear flat at the level of the opening. Also in 1974, Turrell located Roden Crater, an extinct volcano in northern Arizona, where he has since worked to refine the site into a monumental observatory for perceiving extraordinary qualities of natural light and celestial events. A solo show of Turrell's work was held in 1976 at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. That same year, Turrell created his first Space Division Construction, in which an opening onto a space filled with ambient light is seen first as a flat surface and then as a window onto a fog-filled room of uncertain dimensions. Since the 1980s, Turrell has created dark pieces in which light is reduced to barely perceptible levels as well as site-specific light installations visible from outside of the multi-story buildings they inhabit. Retrospectives of Turrell's work were held in at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York (1980), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles (1985), Osterreichisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst in Vienna (1999), and Institut Valencia d'Art Modern (2004). The artist lives in Flagstaff, Arizona." (source: Guggenheim New York website)
Provenance: private Bozeman, Montana, USA collection, acquired before 2015; consignor was co-owner of Segura Publishing Company, Tempe, Arizona and acquired this piece directly from Segura during his tenure
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- Condition: All are in excellent overall condition. Each hand-signed with "P.P." written in pencil beneath image.
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