Spencer Finch (1962)
Spencer Finch
Spencer Finch is an American artist.
Finch produces work in a wide variety of mediums, including watercolor, photography, glass, electronics, video and fluorescent lights. He is perhaps best known for dealing with the elusive concepts of memory and perception through light installations. After measuring with a colorimeter the light that exist naturally in a specific place and time, Finch's re-constructs the luminosity of the location through artificial means.
Finch was chosen to create the only work of art commissioned for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. For his work, "Trying To Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning," Finch hand-painted 2,983 squares of Fabriano paper — one square in a unique shade of blue for every person killed in the September 11 attacks and in the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.
| Date and place of birt: | 1962, New Haven, USA |
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| Nationality: | USA |
| Period of activity: | XX, XXI century |
| Specialization: | Artist, Painter |
| Art style: | Abstract art, Abstract Expressionism, Contemporary art |
