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23-1/8 x 23-1/4 x 1/4 in. (each glass panel)
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Contemporary Art Society Fund, Anonymous IV Art Fund
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Spencer Finch, Brooklyn, New York via (Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois); purchased by the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 2013.
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As light shifts across the surrounding tinted windows and the hanging glass panels in this contemporary installation, one is immersed in a sensory environment of changing kaleidoscopic reflections.
Following Nature was inspired by artist Spencer Finch’s longtime admiration for Claude Monet and the Impressionist painter’s celebrated gardens in Giverny, France. The colors featured here are drawn from Finch’s personal observations of the gardens and from Monet’s own depictions of this subject, as seen in two examples below.Monet once wrote, “I am following nature without being able to grasp her.” Following Nature is Finch’s own attempt to capture the ever-changing experience of light as filtered through colors that Monet experienced and painted. As Finch has explained, “I really had the sense of Monet creating [in Giverny] this experimental laboratory for certain optical effects.”
We invite you to “follow nature” and look at the world as artists do as you explore the IMA’s own Gardens and the Virginia B. Fairbanks Art & Nature Park: 100 Acres.
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