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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Spencer Finch Artworks

Spencer Finch (53 results)

Study for Color Test 210 (warm-warm), 2015

Spencer Finch

Study for Color Test 210 (warm-warm), 2015

Ann Kendall Richards, Inc.

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

Spencer Finch

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

7,500 USD

Back to Kansas, 2015

Spencer Finch

Back to Kansas, 2015

Betsy Senior Fine Art

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THE RIVER THAT FLOWS BOTH WAYS (Hudson..., 2011

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THE RIVER THAT FLOWS BOTH WAYS (Hudson..., 2011

Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art

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Molecule Drawing, 2013

Spencer Finch

Molecule Drawing, 2013

Berggruen Gallery

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Masterpieces Without the Director (four works), 1991

Spencer Finch and Paul Ramírez-Jonas

Masterpieces Without the Director (four works), 1991

Sale Date: April 18, 2024

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Back to Kansas, 2015

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Back to Kansas, 2015

Sale Date: October 24, 2023

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Back to Kansas, 2015

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Back to Kansas, 2015

Sale Date: October 30, 2023

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i. Trying to Remember the Color of Jackie..., 1994

Spencer Finch

i. Trying to Remember the Color of Jackie..., 1994

Sale Date: September 29, 2023

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Odor, (Temple os...)

Spencer Finch

Odor, (Temple os...)

Sale Date: March 30, 2023

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Back to Kansas, 2015

Spencer Finch

Back to Kansas, 2015

Sale Date: May 9, 2023

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Exactly five in the afternoon (Spain, After..., 2007

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Exactly five in the afternoon (Spain, After..., 2007

Sale Date: March 1, 2023

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Studio (Shadows), 2000

Spencer Finch

Studio (Shadows), 2000

Sale Date: March 1, 2023

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Slippery Slope Haromosh, 1998

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Slippery Slope Haromosh, 1998

Sale Date: December 20, 2022

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Snow Shadow (Giverny, January 8, 2003 1:10pm), 2007

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Snow Shadow (Giverny, January 8, 2003 1:10pm), 2007

Sale Date: December 14, 2022

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The Garden of Eden (All the Colors in My..., 2013

Spencer Finch

The Garden of Eden (All the Colors in My..., 2013

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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Paths Through the Studio (21 works), 2012

Spencer Finch

Paths Through the Studio (21 works), 2012

Sale Date: November 17, 2022

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OK Corral, 1999

Spencer Finch

OK Corral, 1999

Sale Date: November 16, 2022

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The River That Flows Both Ways (Hudson..., 2011

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The River That Flows Both Ways (Hudson..., 2011

Sale Date: October 26, 2022

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

Spencer Finch

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

Sale Date: June 25, 2022

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Instruction framing

Spencer Finch

Instruction framing

Sale Date: June 2, 2022

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

Spencer Finch

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

Sale Date: December 15, 2021

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Moonlight (Luna County, New Mexico), 2003

Spencer Finch

Moonlight (Luna County, New Mexico), 2003

Sale Date: August 5, 2021

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Studio Shadow, 2000–2002

Spencer Finch

Studio Shadow, 2000–2002

Sale Date: June 24, 2021

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