Spencer Finch: This room needs flowers.

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In This room needs flowers., Spencer Finch presents five intimate works that speak poetically to the patience and persistence of the avid gardener. Employing watercolor, woodblock and photography, Finch creates work that feels constructed of color, time, light and air - recording and mimicking natural phenomena of falling leaves and cherry blossoms, chronicling blooms and observing the subtleties of a day in the life of a daisy. This room needs flowers. takes its name from a line in the poem Afterward by Robert Dash’s close friend and collaborator James Schuyler. Spencer Finch is best known for ethereal light installations that visualize his experience of natural phenomena. His investigations into the nature of light, color, memory and perception manifest in watercolors, drawings, video and photographs. Compelled by what he describes as ‘the impossible desire to see oneself seeing’, Finch holds up an enchanting prism between the outer world and inner thought. 

Spencer Finch (born 1962, New Haven, Connecticut) has exhibited extensively in the US and internationally. Recent major projects include Fifteen Stones (Ryoanji) at the Fundació Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona, Spain (2018); A Cloud Index, a site-specific commission for Paddington Station in London (2018); and Trying To Remember the Color of the Sky on That September Morning, for the 9/11 Memorial, New York, NY (2014). His work can be found in collections including The Hirshhorn Museum, The National Gallery of Art, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and The Whitney Museum of American Art. Spencer Finch lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.