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.