Portrait of Spencer Finch. Courtesy the Hill Art Foundation. Photo: Matthew Herrmann
Artist Talk Spencer Finch
March 5, 2024
Join us for the dedication of Bring me the sunset in a cup by Spencer Finch.
This program is in celebration of one of the newest additions to MIT’s Public Art Collection. Spencer Finch is an American artist whose works explore color, subjectivity, and perception in a variety of media – ranging from large-scale public projects to light installations and watercolors. This site-specific work is a Percent-for-Art commission for the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing and serves as a shimmering meditation on computing and human perception.
This will be a hybrid event with a live video that can be streamed here at 6 PM EST
About the Artist
Spencer Finch is an American artist whose works explore color, subjectivity, and perception in a variety of media—ranging from large-scale public projects to light installations and watercolors. His material investigations are driven by what he has described as “the impossible desire to see oneself seeing.” Drawing on the artist’s decades-long explorations of light and color, Spencer Finch’s Percent-for-Art commission for the MIT Stephen A. Schwarzman College of Computing is a shimmering meditation on computing and human perception.
About MIT’s Percent-for-Art Program
The MIT List Visual Arts Center maintains one of the most active Percent-for-Art programs in the country. Over the years MIT’s campus public art collection has continued to grow with new commissions by important and critically acclaimed contemporary artists.
