The work of light and space artist James Turrell, Pomona College Class of 1965, is under a very bright spotlight at the moment. Turrell, whose on-campus Skyspace draws visitors from a wide area, was featured in this past school year’s “It Happened at Pomona” exhibitions. Now his latest Skyspace, the pyramid-like “Twilight Epiphany,” has just opened at Rice University in Houston. Also in Houston, his “Six Holograms” exhibition opens in July at the Hiram Butler Gallery. Plus Turrell has an ongoing exhibition, “The Light Inside,” near Stockholm, Sweden.
And, in a new Q&A with Los Angeles County Museum of Art Director Michael Govan in Interview Magazine, we learn that Turrell (pictured here on the left at the 2007 dedication of Pomona’s Skyspace) will be the subject of a retrospective exhibition to be shown next year at LACMA, the Guggenheim Museum in New York and Houston’s Museum of Fine Arts. Govan interviewed Turrell at an Arizona Route 66 truck stop near the artist’s famous Roden Crater project.
