James Turrell
Acro, Green

Acro, Green

© James Turrell

Acro, Green
Acro, Green
ArtistAmerican, born 1943
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Acro, Green
Date1968
Made inUnited States
MediumProjected light
DimensionsDimensions variable
Credit LineMuseum purchase
Object number2008.371
Not on view

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Description

 James Turrell creates ecstatic and deeply beautiful art through his use of the purest of materials: light, framed within space. Acro, Green is an iconic example. In what came to be known as his "Projection Piece" series (1966–69), Turrell cast a beam of light from a high-intensity projector across a room onto a mural surface. Where the projection hit the wall (or corner) it became a sharply defined geometric form, both actual and illusionary.


Acro, Green, from this founding stage in Turrell's career, is created by projecting a single, controlled beam of light from the opposing corner of the room. As it hits the corner, the projected light gives the illusion of a three-dimensional cubic form. The first version of this corner installation was created in 1967 with white light. A year later, Turrell made this variation in green—a color he uses sparingly.


ProvenancePurchased by MFAH, 2008.
Exhibition History"Color into Light: Selections from the MFAH Collection," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, December 13, 2008–March 22, 2009.

"James Turrell: The Light Inside," The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, June 9–September 22, 2013.

"See the Light: The Luminist Tradition in American Art," Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, October 13, 2012–January 28, 2013.

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