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The design is the work of American artist James Turrell. As of 2013 over 82 skyspaces have been installed worldwide. [5] Examples include Dividing the Light at Pomona College, the Skyspace Lech in Vorarlberg , the Live Oak Friends Meeting in Houston, Texas and at Rice University, also in Houston.
James Turrell Dividing the Light: 2007: Pomona College, Claremont, California, United States: Metal canopy with square aperture, lighting program, reflecting/continuous pool; includes courtyard space with granite bench seating and landscaping: Pomona College, Claremont, California, United States Within without [36] 2010
The UIC Skyspace, officially titled Hard Scrabble Sky, is an art installation by James Turrell on the South Campus of the University of Illinois at Chicago, located there since 2005. Hard Scrabble Sky is a Skyspace , part of a series of site-specific installations by Turrell that present a constrained view of the sky.
Dividing the Light, colloquially the Pomona College skyspace, [3] is a 2007 skyspace art installation by James Turrell at Pomona College, his alma mater. [1] It consists of a courtyard with a fountain nestled between two academic buildings with an illuminated canopy framing the sky above.
James Turrell (born May 6, 1943) is an American artist known for his work within the Light and Space movement. [1] He is considered the "master of light" [2] 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.
A sunset viewing of Meeting—an installation at MoMA PS1 centered around a rectangular portal to the sky—offers its own kind of sensory-rich, mindful escape.
The meeting house, which was completed in December 2000, was designed and built to house the Live Oak Friends Meeting, which was formed in 1954. The building features a permanent installation by the artist James Turrell, known as the Skyspace or One Accord. It has been described as an architectural "idealization of Quaker testimonies like peace ...
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