1st Artist talk for Sept

Spencer Finch is an all around artist. He Seems to be able to seamlessly paint, sculpt, and photograph all the while showing his love of color and without losing his vision or voice as an artist. He Finch never seems to have a problem getting his point across in his work no matter what medium he is working with. My favorite piece he showed during the talk was his Glacier Piece (shown Here) this piece fascinates me because it is a closed circuit. The water from the pool is sucked up to make ice which is then dropped into the shoot where it melts and once again becomes part of the pool. The water is dyed to reproduce the color of glaciers which is an amazing blue color I have never seen anywhere other than a glacier.

I also find the work Finch does with the color of light very interesting. I think it is interesting that not only is he importing light from another place and time, sometimes light that he himself was never able to experience like the light Achilles saw when invading Troy, but if you look at the gels he puts on his lights you would think there is no way he could get uniform light, but he manages to. He also manages to make a beautiful colored sculpture in the process.