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James Turrell, Aten Reign, 2015

James Turrell, Aten Reign, 2015, Archival pigment print, 44 x 65 in, Edition of 30, Signed ( ENQUIRE )

James Turrell: In the age of Instagram
While James Turrell's nearly 50-year career has earned him an art world reputation as "something of a diety," an entirely new generation has become deeply moved and mesmerized by the artist's work with light. Following the buzz of Kanye West's IMAX world-premiere set in Roden Crater and on the heels of the recent drop of a free short documentary on the artist courtesy Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Zane Bennett looks back at how James Turrell has become a household name to a new and young audience since he first radically transformed The Guggenheim in 2013 with Aten Reign.
 

2015: "hotline bling"
Almost two years after music star Drake
posted a series of selfies in the LACMA's
2014 James Turrell retrospective (cryptically
captioned "Lost" and "Turrell x OVO," the
latter referring to the musician's record label),
the music artist dropped the viral hit "Hotline
Bling." Dad-dancing aside, the main buzz
around the hit song was Drake's clear
inspiration from Turrell's light installations.
James Turrell later famously quipped that
he was "truly flattered to learn that Drake
f***s with" him and felt he "honored" his
work.

Read more on VICE.
 

2018: "Jesus is king"
Not to be outdone, a few years later
acclaimed and controversial artist Kanye
West announced two pieces of news that
set the art world ablaze again: in addition to
a cool 10 million dollar donation to support
Turrell's decades-long project Roden Crater,
the artist announced that he would be using
the monumental land art installation as the
backdrop for his upcoming project "Jesus is
King." West has described the experience of
visiting Turrell's land art as "life changing,"
and in 2019, was gifted a Turrell-designed
home by the artist for his birthday.

Read more on Rolling Stone.
 

2020: in the family
24-year-old supermodel Kendall Jenner
recently gave a video tour of her artful home
in L.A. In addition to showing off works by
Barbara Kruger and Richard Prince, Jenner
proudly proclaimed James Turrell's 2019
Scorpius, Medium Elliptical Glass as the
centerpiece of her collection. "I wanted this
piece to be a focal point of the house, and
I’m so hyped to have it here," Jenner said.
As true to her own tastes as brother-in-law
Kanye West, Jenner also flipped the piece
from its original horizontal placement on the
art fair circuits.

Read more on Architectural Digest.
 

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435 South Guadalupe Street
Santa Fe, NM 87501