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James Turrell: The Light Inside
Law Building, Second Floor
1001 Bissonnet
About the exhibition
Concentrating on the museum's extraordinary collection of work by American artist James Turrell (born 1943), this retrospective makes many of the artist’s installations accessible to the public for the first time. At the conceptual core of the exhibition is The Light Inside, which is permanently installed in the museum’s underground Wilson Tunnel. Also included is Vertical Vintage, a grouping of a dozen light-based installations that allow visitors to test the limits of their perception, study the play of illusion, and witness how light shapes space.
Turrell’s Mapping Spaces portfolio and related works to describe his Roden Crater project are featured as well. The presentation has been conceived jointly by the MFAH, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City. Each venue presents historical and new projects by the artist during the spring and summer of 2013 to illuminate his career.
Entrance to this exhibition is included with your museum admission.
MFAH Members receive free general admission.
This exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in conjunction with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Generous funding is provided by:
The Brown Foundation, Inc.
Additional support is provided by:
Leslie and Brad Bucher
Sara Paschall Dodd-Spickelmier and Keith Spickelmier
The exhibition is dedicated to the memory of Isabel B. Wilson, Chairman Emeritus of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.