Spencer Finch

(American, born 1962)

Spencer Finch is a contemporary American artist who explores themes of phenomenological experience. In his installations, Finch attempts to recreate particular time and place using colored light—culling from J.M.W. Turner paintings, Emily Dickinson poems, or his own memories. “Finch's efforts toward accuracy—the precise measurements he takes under different conditions and at different times of day—resist, in the end, a definitive result or single empirical truth about his subject,” the curator Susan Cross wrote of his work. “Instead, his dogged method reinforces the fleeting, temporal nature of the observed world, illustrating his own version of a theory of relativity.” Born in 1962 in New Haven, CT, he received a BA in comparative literature from Hamilton College in 1985, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. In his commissioned work Trying to Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning (2014), the artist honored each victim of the 9/11 terrorist attacks by hand painting 2,973 sheets of paper with varied shades of blue meant to evoke the sky that morning. The artist currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Today, his works can be found in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C., the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, among others.

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Back to Kansas, 2015, 2015

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Back to Kansas, 2015, 2015

Sale Date: February 22, 2021

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Instruction framing

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Instruction framing

Sale Date: December 16, 2020

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Studio Shadow, 2000–2002

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Studio Shadow, 2000–2002

Sale Date: December 17, 2020

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Study for Magic Hour, 2004

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Study for Magic Hour, 2004

Sale Date: October 1, 2020

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Moonlight (Luna County, New Mexico), 2003

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Moonlight (Luna County, New Mexico), 2003

Sale Date: October 25, 2019

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Vanitas (Tulips) 2012, 2012

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Vanitas (Tulips) 2012, 2012

Sale Date: September 11, 2019

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MISTRAL (AVIGNON), 2006

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MISTRAL (AVIGNON), 2006

Sale Date: March 7, 2019

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SUNLIGHT (TROY EVENING EFFECT 10/26/02), 2002

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SUNLIGHT (TROY EVENING EFFECT 10/26/02), 2002

Sale Date: March 7, 2019

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Moonlight (Luna County, New Mexico, July 13, , 2003

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Moonlight (Luna County, New Mexico, July 13, , 2003

Sale Date: April 23, 2019

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NEW YORK BOOGIE WOOGIE (TIMES SQUARE, APRIL..., 2005

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NEW YORK BOOGIE WOOGIE (TIMES SQUARE, APRIL..., 2005

Sale Date: October 4, 2018

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Study for the Morgan (A Certain Slant...), 2014

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Study for the Morgan (A Certain Slant...), 2014

Sale Date: March 2, 2018

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Waiting behind Mary Kay at the Mc Donald's..., 1997

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Waiting behind Mary Kay at the Mc Donald's..., 1997

Sale Date: December 14, 2017

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Ag, 2008

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Sale Date: September 28, 2016

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Moonlight (Luna Country, New Mexico, July 13), 2003

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Moonlight (Luna Country, New Mexico, July 13), 2003

Sale Date: May 27, 2016

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West (Sunset in My Motel Room, Monument..., 2007

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West (Sunset in My Motel Room, Monument..., 2007

Sale Date: May 11, 2015

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Moonlight (Luna Country, New Mexico, July..., 2003

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Moonlight (Luna Country, New Mexico, July..., 2003

Sale Date: March 4, 2015

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Snow Shadow, Giverny, January 8 1.10 PM, 2003

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Snow Shadow, Giverny, January 8 1.10 PM, 2003

Sale Date: November 10, 2014

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Mars Black

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Sale Date: November 10, 2014

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Sunset St. Louis 7/31/08 (2 works), 2008

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Sunset St. Louis 7/31/08 (2 works), 2008

Sale Date: September 16, 2014

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Moonlight (Luna County, New Mexico, July 13, , 2003

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Moonlight (Luna County, New Mexico, July 13, , 2003

Sale Date: February 27, 2014

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Darkness, 2003

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Darkness, 2003

Sale Date: July 17, 2013

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Times Square, February 10, 2006 8PM (in 15..., 2006

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Times Square, February 10, 2006 8PM (in 15..., 2006

Sale Date: May 6, 2012

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Sun in an empty room, 2005

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Sun in an empty room, 2005

Sale Date: March 8, 2012

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Trying to remember the color of Jackie Kennedy's

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Trying to remember the color of Jackie Kennedy's

Sale Date: November 15, 2011

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