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For conceptual artist Spencer Finch, there is a paradox inherent in vision; an impossible desire “to see oneself seeing.” Finch probes this tension—to want to see, but not able to see. He explores the use of color as a visceral experience of our impossible desire to name our perceptions.
Sensing that our observations must be tied to experience if we are to get at the truth of something, Finch is compelled continually to expand the scope of his projects, returning to the same sites at all hours to look again and again sometimes using Impressionist methodologies, representing the same colors in the morning, afternoon and evening.
Through a variety of media-sculpture, performance, video, painting and drawing, he deals with issues of color, language, vision, memory, perception and representation through such nature-derived concepts as wind movements, properties of light, the distance to the stars, and moments in time.