Deep Sky series

1989

Not on view

Deep Sky is the first print portfolio by James Turrell, an artist best known for large scale and site-specific works that center modes of perception. In these prints, Turrell translates his engagement with light and space into a two-dimensional medium. Working with tones of black, white, and gray, Turrell creates images that are powerful and poetic and evoke abstractions and plays of light and shadow, as well as his celebrated site specific work the Roden Crater as viewed under a dramatic night sky.

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Provenance

Title: Deep Sky series
Artist: James Turrell (American, born 1943)
Printer: Peter Kneubühler (Swiss, 1944–1999)
Publisher: Peter Blum Edition
Date: 1989
Medium: Aquatint
Dimensions: Sheet (each): 21 × 27 in. (53.3 × 68.6 cm)
Classification: Prints
Credit Line: Gift of Susan L. Fleischer, in memory of Arthur Fleischer Jr., 2025
Object Number: 2025.840.1–.7
Curatorial Department: Drawings and Prints

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