To me, Spencer Finch creates work that is heavily based in a combination of scientific elements, technical savvy, and color infusion. His work involves quite a bit of color exploration and measurement, focusing a lot on changing the color that the sun shines through windows to depict a different color or time period. For example, he created one piece recently by measuring the light that the moon gives off, outside a building, and with the use of layering color filters in window panes, changes the light given off by the sun in the daytime inside of the building to the same measurement of the night sky.
His work really forced and challenged me to look much more into color related to my own work. His work seemed to show me how important color and light can change an art piece. Before going to this artist lecture, i found myself focusing much more on concept in my own pieces, without taking into consideration the color and light inside of the photograph, other than exposure. Afterwards, though, i can see that i should pay more attention to color and light in my own work to emphasize the concept, instead of being oblivious.
Another piece of Spencer's that i found to be very influential and somewhat related to my own work was a piece he constructed out of studio lighting gels. My artwork is partially about this internal struggle for identity between two differing and opposite id
entities. This piece of Spencer's really depicts what i feel inside of me constantly; this sort of explosive and violently raging 'thing', probably an identity. He captures what i feel might be an 'identity' in its violent and explosive nature, as if being confronted by an opposing identity. This piece really stands out to me, and has helped me think of expanding much more of my work into a physical construction rather than photography.http://www.spencerfinch.com/project.php?project=moonlight
http://www.spencerfinch.com/project.php?project=sunlight_in_an_empty_room
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