Spencer Finch

American, born 1962

Biography Spencer Finch (born 1962, New Haven, Connecticut) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA. He has a BA in comparative literature from Hamilton College, Clinton, New York, USA (1985) and an MFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, USA (1989). Finch produces work in a wide variety of mediums, including watercolor, photography, glass, electronics, video and florescent lights and is best known for his ethereal light installations and works on paper that visualize the experience of light, color, memory, and perception.

He has had extensive international solo exhibitions and projects. Some of his most recent and best known projects include Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky, (2014) for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum that commemorates the victims of 9/11 through the installation of 2,983 hand-painted watercolor squares, each painted in a differing shade of blue and mounted together on a wire grid; and A Certain Slant of Light, (2014) The Morgan Library, New York, NY, that references the library’s collection of medieval and Renaissance illuminated manuscripts (Books of Hours).

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