Spencer Finch.

White (Niagara Falls Obscured by Mist) 2006. Lightbox and filters. This piece re-creates the light at a moment when the falls was obscured by its own mist.

Sunset (South Texas) 2003. Fluorescent lights, filters. This piece recreates the exact color and intensity of the sunset on June 21st 2003.

William Forsythe: Three Atmospheric Studies. 2005. These lights, based on a Cranach painting in the sky, were used in the second act. Other lighting schemes were based on Turner and Newton. Light installation for the Forsythe Dance Company. Frankfurt, Germany. Fluorescent lights and filters.

West (Sunset in my Motel Room) 2007. 9 channel synchronized video installation with 9 TV monitors. This piece imitates the natural illumination of the fading evening sun by means of the light projected from a group of video monitors reflecting off a white wall. Each of the nine monitors stacked in rows of three, cycles through thirty stills from the film The Searchers, the images dissolving into a new set of stills once a minute.

Night Sky, Over The Painted Desert. 2004. Dimensions variable, Eighty-five light fixtures and 401 incandescent lamps. The light fixtures represent the molecules of a pigment mix (4 different pigments) that matches the color of the night sky over the Painted Desert, AZ. Installation at the Whitney Museum.

‘Moonlight’ and ‘Moondust’ installations at Venice Biennale 2009. Moonlight – installation of colored filters in the windows. Green, blue, and yellow window panes create patterns of light that move across the floors as the sun shifts. Moondust – light sculpture of incandescent bulbs that hang from the ceiling. Images via here.

Orion 2008. Painted glass globes and LED’s. 17 painted glass globes creating a map of the main stars in the Constellation ORION.

Spencer Finch was born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1962. He lives and works in Brooklyn creating art and installations using a variety of different media. His installations record the invisible world, capture specific moments in time and use scientific data as the basis for his lyrical art.

Just look at some of the pieces I’m showing you here. His ‘Composition in Red and Green’ uses Isaac Newton’ study of gravity and optics. ‘Abecedary’ is based on Nabukov’s therory of a coloured alphabet applied to Heisenberg’s uncertainly principle – what does that even mean?! Either way it looks so incredibly beautiful and poetic. Not to mention his ‘Sunset’ fluorescent lights & filters installation which recreates the exact color and intensity of the sunset on 21st June 2003 in South Texas. Crazy!

Mr Finch, you are one interesting character. Your art and your way of viewing the world ignite a curiosity and a sense of wonder in me. Would you like to come over for dinner one night? I make a mean pasta, just ask my friend Ben.

Sunlight in an Empty Room (Passing Cloud for Emily Dickinson) 2004. 100 fluorescent lights, filters, clothespins. This work re-creates the effect of a passing cloud in Emily Dickinson’s back yard in Amherst, Massachusetts, based on an August afternoon. The bank of three types of fluorescents generates a simulation of the daylight, and the hanging filters of the “cloud” shift the color and intensity of the sunlight to replicate the shadow cast by a cloud.

Sky (Over Coney Island) 2004. Balloons, Helium and String. Installation at Miami Beach. These balloons (a specific violet balloon inside a cobalt balloon, inflated to 23cm) precisely re-create the color of the sky over coney island on one November day.

Composition in Red and Green. 2000. Apples, carpet, motor, wood, and Plexiglas. An homage to Isaac Newton, this piece drops red apples every five minutes from a motorized chute hanging from the ceiling. Among other things, this installation is an exploration of two subjects to which Newton devoted considerable study; gravity and optics.

Abecedary (Nabukov’s Therory of a Coloured Alphabet Applied to Heisenberg’s Uncertainly Principle) 2004. Ink and watercolour on paper. Used Nabokov’s system of a colored alphabet to transliterate 9,251 characters from Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle text. Ummm… WHAT? Anyway, it’s pretty.

Shades of Blue. 2008. Ink on Paper.

Walden Pond (Morning Effect) 2007. Paper collage consists of varied hues of the water and ice from twenty different spots on the shore of Walden Pond. Each of the colors were matched to a Monet Painting. The images are annotated with the time of day the color was noted, the location from which the observation was made and the direction of the gaze.