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A large gallery with the walls painted with squares of blue, green, purple, yellow, and red. There...
Installation view: Lux and Lumen: Spencer Finch. Hill Art Foundation, September 16–March 4, 2023. © Hill Art Foundation. Photo: Matthew Herrmann.

Lux and Lumen: Spencer Finch
September 16, 2022

The Hill Art Foundation is pleased to announce Lux and Lumen: Spencer Finch. The exhibition places new and recent works by Spencer Finch in dialogue with a 16th-century stained glass window by the Renaissance master Valentin Bousch. Bousch’s The Creation and the Expulsion from Paradise (1533) was acquired by Tom and Janine Hill in 2018 for the Hill Art Foundation and has undergone extensive conservation under the leadership of Drew Anderson and Timothy Husband. In conceiving this exhibition, Finch worked closely with the conservation team to understand the connections between the stained glass window and his own practice. The title comes from the ideas of Abbot Suger (circa 1081–1151), abbot of the cathedral at Saint-Denis and an early patron of Gothic architecture in Europe. Suger believed in the power of stained glass to transform natural light, lux, into sacred light, or lumen. Finch expands on these ideas in relation to the Bousch stained glass and modern secular sites. One such example is the monumental Painting Air, an immersive installation that transforms the Foundation’s double-story gallery into a lightscape inspired by Claude Monet’s garden at Giverny.

Lux and Lumen: Spencer Finch opens one week after the artist’s solo exhibition at James Cohan Gallery, We send the wave to find the wave. Taken together, the two exhibitions represent a celebration of Finch’s exploration of light, atmosphere, and time.

A series of four work on paper in white frames against a white gallery wall.
Installation view: Lux and Lumen: Spencer Finch. Hill Art Foundation, September 16–March 4, 2023. © Hill Art Foundation. Photo: Matthew Herrmann.
A gallery space with a series of paintings in frames hanging along a hallway
Installation view: Lux and Lumen: Spencer Finch. Hill Art Foundation, September 16–March 4, 2023. © Hill Art Foundation. Photo: Matthew Herrmann.
The walls painted with squares of blue, green, purple, yellow, and red. There are over 100 sheets...
Spencer Finch, Painting Air (detail), 2022. Glass, hardware, wall painting, Dimensions variable.
Tubular LED light fixtures arranged to form a circle on the wall.
Spencer Finch, Rose Window at Saint-Denis (morning effect), 2022. LED fixtures, LED lamps, filters, diameter: 108 inches (274.3 cm). Photo: Matthew Herrmann.
A stain glass window made from sheets of warm tones of Lambert glass, casting a warm tone of shadow...
Spencer Finch, CIE 529/418 (candlelight), 2022. Stained glass, steel frame, dimensions variable.
Photo of a man kneeling on one knee, holding and looking up at a color card in his hand while more...
Spencer Finch installing CIE 529/418 (candlelight)
Two boxes hanging from the ceiling facing the Chelsea neighborhood, one with a blue filter and...
Spencer Finch, Manhattan Light Study (morning becomes afternoon, afternoon becomes morning), 2022. Powder coated aluminum, plexiglass, filters. Two boxes, 18 × 18 × 12 inches (45.7 × 45.7 × 30.5 cm) each.
This time lapse by Matthew Herrmann gives a behind-the-scenes look at the installation of Spencer Finch's Painting Air (2022) at the Hill Art Foundation.
Valentin Bousch

The Creation and Expulsion window by Valentin Bousch is a masterpiece that will be installed semi-permanently in the Hill Art Foundation space. The below video, filmed and edited by Matthew Herrmann, documents the complex installation of the work. Timothy Husband produced extensive scholarship surrounding the window and its conservation, excerpts of which can be read here as well. These texts will be published in our upcoming catalogue, Lux and Lumen: Spencer Finch and Valentin Bousch at Hill Art Foundation. For a panel-by-panel breakdown of the Creation and Expulsion window, scroll down or view the full virtual exhibition here.

  • A stained glass window installed against a backed lighting depicting a biblical scene of the Creation...
Valentin Bousch, The Creation and the Expulsion from Paradise, 1533. Stained glass, 114 × 90 inches (289.6 × 228.6 cm).
This time lapse by Matthew Herrmann gives a behind-the-scenes look at the installation of Valentin Bousch's Creation and Expulsion window at the Hill Art Foundation.
A man in a short sleeved shirt and apron leans over a panel of stained glass on a table. Above...
Conservator Tom Venturella puts finishing touches on the Valentin Bousch Creation and Expulsion window at the Hill Art Foundation.
Two boxes hanging from the ceiling facing the Chelsea neighborhood, one with a blue filter and...

Spencer Finch

Manhattan Light Study (morning becomes afternoon, afternoon becomes morning), 2022

Two boxes; Powder coated aluminum, plexiglass, filters

Each: 18 × 18 × 12 inches (45.7 × 45.7 × 30.5 cm)

A stained glass window installed against a backed lighting depicting a biblical scene of the Creation...

Valentin Bousch

The Creation and the Expulsion from Paradise, 1533

Stained glass and vitreous enamel

114 × 90 inches (289.6 × 228.6 cm)

A large gallery with the walls painted with squares of blue, green, purple, yellow, and red. There...

Spencer Finch

Painting Air, 2022

Glass, hardware, wall painting

Dimensions variable

Tubular LED light fixtures arranged to form a circle on the wall.

Spencer Finch

Rose Window at Saint-Denis (morning effect), 2022

LED fixtures, LED lamps, filters

Diameter: 76 1/2 inches (194.31 cm)

Seven multicolor square paintings hung horizontally on white wall

Spencer Finch

Studio window, summer (infrared, early morning, late morning, early afternoon, mid-afternoon, late afternoon, early evening, evening, 6/24/22), 2022

Suite of seven; Oil pastel on paper

Each: 30 × 29 1/2 inches (76.2 × 74.93 cm)

white square paper on white background framed with wood against white background with writing in...

Spencer Finch

Hannibal Crossing the Alps (2 Views), 2001

Pastel, pencil, and color pencil on paper

15 × 22 1/2 inches (38.1 × 57.15 cm)

Drawing of offwhite square with turquoise outline framed with wood hung on white wall with writing...

Spencer Finch

Abstraction #3, 2001

Pastel, pencil, and color pencil on paper

15 × 22 1/2 inches (38.1 × 57.15 cm)

Drawing of two offwhite squares with turquoise outline framed with wood hung on white wall with...

Spencer Finch

Supremacist Composition (Boy with Knap Sack), 2001

Pastel, pencil, and color pencil on paper

22 1/2 × 15 inches (57.15 × 38.1 cm)

Drawing of offwhite trapezoid with turquoise outline framed with wood hung on white wall with writing...

Spencer Finch

Window (Neighbors), 2001

Pastel, pencil, and color pencil on paper

15 × 22 1/2 inches (38.1 × 57.15 cm)

Seven inkjet photographs of a bedroom from the outside in hung horizontally on white wall

Spencer Finch

The Outer—from the Inner (Emily Dickinson’s Bedroom, dusk), 2018

Suite of seven; Archival inkjet photographs

Each: 15 1/2 × 15 1/2 inches (39.37 × 39.37 cm)

A stain glass window made from sheets of warm tones of Lambert glass, casting a warm tone of shadow...

Spencer Finch

Candlelight (CIE 529/418), 2022

Stained glass, steel frame

Dimensions variable

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