James Turrell
James Turrell (born May 6, 1943) is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. He is considered the "master of light" often creating art installations that mix natural light with artificial color through openings in ceilings thereby transforming internal spaces by ever shifting and changing color.
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President Barack Obama presents the National Medal of Arts to James Turrell on July 28, 2014 | |
| Born | May 6, 1943 Los Angeles, California, US |
| Alma mater | Pomona College University of California, Irvine Claremont Graduate University |
| Known for | Installation art |
| Notable work | Roden Crater, Acton |
| Movement | Light and Space |
| Website | jamesturrell |
Much of Turrell's career has been devoted to a still-unfinished work, Roden Crater, a natural cinder cone crater located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, that he is turning into a massive naked-eye observatory; and for his series of skyspaces, enclosed spaces that frame the sky.
Turrell was a MacArthur Fellow in 1984.
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