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	'James Turrell: a sculptor of light'
		James Turrell was also responsible for the lighting in the Millennium-Dome’s Chill-Out-Zone, and the uncompleted and now abandoned Thames Light Project, an integrated lighting scheme installed in the water, under bridges, and on tops of buildings on both banks of the river.
		Yves Klein and James Turrell are considered to be heirs to the painter Rothko.
		Thus, James Turrell, turns out to be the umpteenth example of an artist, who, in the guise of a further development of art, is only transgressing the boundaries of art and proceeds to displaying reality or creating real objects and real spaces: (spatial) design.
	d-sites.net /english/turrell.htm (2716 words)

	Light Reign : A James Turrell Skyspace
		The long awaited James Turrell Skyspace, Light Reign, was unveiled to the public in July of 2003.
		James Turrell is an internationally acclaimed light and space artist whose work can be found in collections worldwide.
		A James Turrell skyspace is a freestanding enclosed chamber large enough for about 15 people and designed and constructed with utmost precision to heighten our sense of sight and perception.
	www.henryart.org /skyspace.htm (502 words)

	Wall Street
		The treasure that lies within is an installation by James Turrell, an artist whose canvas is the viewer's perception and whose paint is light.
		Turrell's spell, the eye will read infinity as the exact distance to the wall of a little room or a hole as a solid surface.
		Entering James Turrell's Sky Space, the visitor notices the cornerless, pristine walls, on which a light show plays out, accentuated by the darkening sky that peeks through the boxes on the ceiling and on the gentle curve of the wall.
	www.jamesfgoldstein.com /architecture_wallstreet.html (1129 words)

	Seeing The Light With James Turrell \| Arts and Entertainment \| BBC World Service
		James Turrell is obsessed with the artistic exploration of light and has devoted his life to demonstrating how light is something to be treasured.
		James Turrell grew up in Pasadena California, where one of his earliest memories is of his grandmother inviting him to ‘go inside and greet the light’; at Quaker meetings.
		Furthermore when Turrell exhibited in New York last year, several people were so convinced by the illusions of light that they tripped over the beams and fell to the floor.
	www.bbc.co.uk /worldservice/arts/highlights/001102_turrell.shtml (897 words)

	Art Preview: James Turrell turns on the light
		James Turrell, one of the most significant contemporary artists on the international scene, and two important local arts figures -- the Mattress Factory's Barbara Luderowski and Michael Olijnyk -- were at the early stages of what would become their life works when they met in 1980.
		Turrell is generally described as an artist who works with light and space, creating environments in which the visitor may experience light itself as an object rather than simply as a source of illumination.
		But Turrell is also in touch with the visceral and emotional side of light, citing its importance as the source of vitamin D and a preventative of SAD (seasonal affective disorder).
	www.post-gazette.com /ae/20020526turrell0526fnp3.asp (2004 words)

	James Turrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		James Turrell is obsessed with the exploration of light in his art.
		Turrell’s aim is to make environments that enhance natural light and dark in such a way that you question the source of the light and your perceptions of what you are seeing.
		Turrell’s vision is to create a number of chambers within the volcano where visitors will experience the sight of the sun and moon, and rare celestial alignments.
	www.nga.gov.au /press/turrell.cfm (192 words)

	James Turrell - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		James Turrell (born 1943, Los Angeles) is an artist primarily concerned with light and space.
		Located outside Flagstaff, Arizona, Turrell is turning this natural cinder volcanic crater into a massive naked-eye observatory, designed specifically for the viewing of celestial phenomena.
		His other works usually enclose the viewer in order to control their perception of light; a James Turrell skyspace is an enclosed room large enough for roughly 15 people.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Turrell (204 words)

	Metroactive Arts \| James Turrell
		That man is James Turrell, an artist whose pursuit of light has caused him to attempt the most audacious of mortal acts: the deliberate reshaping of the earth's face so that humans may perceive the sky's ether differently.
		Turrell's investigations edge closer to this side of the continent when he appears at the Sonoma County Museum's welcoming reception of his work, titled "James Turrell: Light and Land," this June 21.
		Turrell is among those adepts who can lift the dulled veil that the mind seeks to soothingly lay, refreshing our necessary perceptual intake with information that we simply didn't know to seek.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/sonoma/06.19.03/turrell-0325.html (1332 words)

	Zeek: The Art of Enlightenment
		By the time Turrell started his talk, there were probably a hundred or so of these infiltrators, standing in the back or squatting in newly captured seats.
		James Turrell is an American artist, born in 1943, who for the last thirty years or so has been investigating the properties of light in his art.
		Turrell explains his work primarily in the terms of perceptual psychology - the discipline in which he received his degree in the 1960s.
	www.zeek.net /art_0304.shtml (545 words)

	Internationally Known Artist James Turrell Speaks on "Plato's Cave and the Light Within," March 12
		James Turrell, called "one of the most significant contemporary artists on the international scene" by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, will speak at Carnegie Mellon at 7:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 12 in McConomy Auditorium in the University Center.
		Turrell's talk on "Plato's Cave and the Light Within" and his creative process is co-presented by the Mattress Factory, Carnegie Mellon's Center for the Arts in Society and the university's School of Art.
		"James Turrell gives quiet glory to the not-so-simple act of perception so that we may revel in a wonderful mix of apprehension, contemplation, recognition and admiration," said Susanne Slavick, head of the School of Art.
	www.cmu.edu /cmnews/extra/030305_lightspace.html (580 words)

	James Turrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Turrell a acheté en 1979 le Roden Crater, un cratère de volcan dans le désert peint en Arizona, à cent kilomètres de Flagstaff où il habite.
		Turrell réalise sous le Roden Crater un réseau de galeries souterraines permettant d'accéder à des chambres creusées en des points déterminés du cratère.
		Turrell utilise les techniques et le savoir scientifiques, comme des instruments donnant à chacun l'accès à une dimension spirituelle intemporelle, commune à tous.
	stephan.barron.free.fr /technoromantisme/turrel.html (2560 words)

	Carnegie Mellon Press Release: February 7, 2003
		Turrell will be speaking on "Plato's Cave and the Light Within" and his creative process, at 7:30 p.m.
		"James Turrell gives quiet glory to the not-so-simple act of perception so that we may revel in a wonderful mix of apprehension, contemplation, recognition and admiration," says Susanne Slavick, the head of Carnegie Mellon's School of Art.
		The 300,000 year-old crater is located in Arizona, and Turrell's goal is to turn it into a natural observatory, as well as a place for viewers to question their own perceptions about light and space.
	www.cmu.edu /PR/releases03/030207_turrell.html (583 words)

	Sonoma County Museum - James Turrell: Light and Land
		James Turrell’s Roden Crater project will transform a volcanic crater, millions of years in the making, into a large-scale artwork – a celestial observatory influenced by ancient naked-eye observatories as well as the contemporary tradition of land art.
		James Turrell was born in Los Angeles, California in 1943.
		James Turrell: Light and Land will be accompanied by an exhibition in the upstairs galleries exploring the visual history of Sonoma County landmarks through maps and aerial photography.
	www.sonomacountymuseum.com /docs/jt.html (895 words)

	Roden Crater Project - A Perspective (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Turrell's works are not of this nature and are usually spaces filled with light in such a way that you question the source of the light and your perceptions of what you are seeing.
		The Roden Crater project is Turrell's most ambitious project and is being constructed in a dormant volcano in the Painted Desert of northern Arizona, northeast of Flagstaff.
		Turrell had been working on the project since 1972 and it has been described as a 'lifetime project' by some.
	www.lasersol.com /art/turrell/rc_intro.html (1046 words)

	bookofjoe: James Turrell — 'Painter in Light'
		James Turrell (above) calls himself a painter in light and has spent his career creating an objectless art that seems to be made of solid light.
		Turrell's art is total abstraction and yet evokes aspects of nature—sunset, dawn, the heavens—with extraordinary intensity.
		Turrell began a movement in the late 1960s known as the California Sublime.
	www.bookofjoe.com /2005/02/james_turrell_p.html (751 words)

	James A. Turrell
		CGU Home » About CGU » Commencement » Historical Information » Bio Turrell, James A. James A. Turrell - M.A. James Turrell’s artwork involves explorations in light and space that speak to the viewer without words, impacting the eye, body, and mind.
		Turrell’s current project is centered on an extinct volcano near the Grand Canyon and the Painted Desert.
		Turrell’s art prompts greater self-awareness through a similar discipline of silent contemplation, patience, and meditation.
	www.cgu.edu /pages/1290.asp (240 words)

	Amazon.fr : James Turrell: The Other Horizon: Livres: James Turrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		In November 1966, 23-year-old artist James Turrell moved into an old hotel in Ocean Park, California, and immediately set to work sealing off all of its windows and insulating all of the walls.
		From there Turrell went on to explore other spatial and perceptual light installations like "skyspaces," in which rooms open up to reveal planes of the visible open sky above and dark spaces where scarcely any light can be perceived.
		James Turrell: The Other Horizon is a large-scale paperback volume that covers over 30 years of this seminal artist's work.
	www.amazon.fr /James-Turrell-Other-Horizon/dp/3775790624 (606 words)

	Art:21 . James Turrell . Biography . Documentary Film \| PBS
		James Turrell was born in Los Angeles in 1943.
		Turrell’s work involves explorations in light and space that speak to viewers without words, impacting the eye, body, and mind with the force of a spiritual awakening.
		Influenced by his Quaker faith, which he characterizes as having a “straightforward, strict presentation of the sublime,” Turrell’s art prompts greater self-awareness through a similar discipline of silent contemplation, patience, and meditation.
	www.pbs.org /art21/artists/turrell (231 words)

	James Turrell - Lisa Sette Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Turrell is constructing chambers in the volcanic crater with an interconnected system of corridors, paths, and steps.
		Turrell has devoted many years to observation and calculation, doing much of the work from the air.
		He lived in the ruins of an ancient Hopi settlement on the east side of the crater for eighteen months, exploring the crater at every hour of day and night, keeping an exact log of the course of the sun, the moon, and the stars.
	www.lisasettegallery.com /artistsP-Z/turrell.htm (159 words)

	PCM Online > Winter 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Turrell says that despite having had irregular access to the needed resources, he has not had to compromise.
		Turrell is sometimes depicted as patriarch of a 156-square-mile ranch, but the image and reality are different.
		Turrell already has been described as the “artist of the century.” But the result, Turrell says, has been a fueling of land speculation, rather than a mobilization of support that could help safeguard the ecologically sensitive grassland.
	www.pomona.edu /Magazine/PCMWin02/CRturrell.shtml (2610 words)

	eyestorm - article - James Turrell
		James Turrell is regarded as one of the key artists of the post-war period.
		James Turrell is part of a loosely grouped, Los Angeles-based movement known as Light and Space artists.
		For Turrell, the quality of a light in the atmosphere at any given moment, and the limits of human cognition that make it both visible and ungraspable, is more fascinating than looking at things that can be grasped.
	www.eyestorm.com /feature/ED2n_article.asp?article_id=20&artitst_id=7 (701 words)

	Galerie Almine Rech > James Turrell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The James Turrell exhibition will be on view as from the joint Rue Louise Weiss opening on 9 March 2002, with the presentation of a sculpture titled "Crater Eye".
		James Turrell’s medium is light, be it the light of the sky, sunlight, the kind of light you switch on, or light from a TV set.
		One of James Turrell’s earliest works, “Mendota Hotel” (Ocean Park, California, 1970-72) used daylight and nightlight, and the lights of traffic and roads headlights, stoplights, traffic-lights, and their random movements.
	www.galeriealminerech.com /artists/artists/james/files/files_james.html (1917 words)

	Knight Rise by James Turrell
		Turrell says his work provides the opportunity to "look at our own looking." By doing so Turrell grounds us in the present moment and reconnects us to the world we inhabit.
		James Turrell is recognized as one of the most significant and influential artists working in the world today, known internationally as a “sculptor of light.”; Turrell holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Psychology from Pomona College, with emphasis in perceptual psychology.
		James Turrell is considered a master of light, and while many artists use paint to replicate light, Turrell uses light itself (sometimes manmade, sometimes natural) to create visual effects.
	www.scottsdalepublicart.org /collection/knightrise.php (1175 words)

	James Turrell - artist - Interview Omni - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The apotheosis of Turrell's art, however, is Roden Crater, located in the Painted Desert, 45 miles from Flagstaff, Arizona.
		Turrell's art, however, is Roden Crater, located in the Painted Desert, 45 miles from Flagstaff, Arizona.
		The son of an aeronautical engineer, Turrell initially supported his work by restoring vintage aircraft and flying supplies to remote mines and highway projects.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1430/is_n9_v17/ai_18077142 (851 words)

	Guggenheim Collection - Installation - Turrell - Night Passage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Turrell has consistently utilized the sparest formal means to perpetuate the consciousness of perception.
		Turrell’s early inquiries into the psychological implications of perception involved sensory deprivation.
		Standing in what Turrell has called the ”sensing space,“; the viewer encounters a Ganzfeld, the volume of colored light on the other side of the partition collapsing into what appears to be a floating, luminous plane with no surface or depth.
	guggenheimcollection.org /site/medium_work_md_Installation_155_2.html (458 words)

	Amazon.com: James Turrell: The Other Horizon: Books: Peter Noever,Daniel Birnbaum,Georges Didi-Hubermann (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Turrell has been fascinated all his life with the concept of light and its use in art and architecture.
		A Turrell exhibit is a glorious thing- each person actively participates, taking in his color concepts, becoming one with them.
		Again, Turrell should be viewed in a proper exhibit, but this book offers a brilliant overview of his career.
	www.amazon.com /James-Turrell-Horizon-Peter-Noever/dp/3775790624 (1048 words)

	BBC - collective - james turrell, albion gallery
		Turrell’s clean and apparently emotionless work, though, is exactly the type of art that an architect might approve of inhabiting such a model.
		Turrell (most recently famed for creating the Roden Crater Millennium art project in his native California) is defined as an artist by an interest in light and space, and how those things directly affect us and our own self-awareness.
		James Turrell - Projection Works 1967-69 is at the Albion Gallery, London, until 16 December 04.
	www.bbc.co.uk /dna/collective/A3130985 (466 words)

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