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An installation of a box backed with white light with different colors of semi-transparent squares...
From Artist, Spencer Finch
An installation of a box backed with white light with different colors of semi-transparent squares...
Spencer Finch Color Test 210 (cool/warm), 2015 LED lightbox, Fujitrans 30 1/2 x 30 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches © Spencer Finch Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York

Color Test series consists of an LED light box confronting the viewer with an overwhelming abundance of colors.

Color Test series consists of an LED light box confronting the viewer with an overwhelming abundance of colors. In a process comparable to the mixing of pigments on a painter’s palette, Finch filters the “neutral” white emanating from the light box with two layers of translucent film imprinted with an irregular checkerboard pattern in different hues. The result, a specific and unique number of different individual color variations, calls into question the limitations of visual perception and differentiation. Indeed, it is unclear how many colors the human eye can discriminate. The Optical Society of America estimates between 7.5–10 million, while other scientists maintain that effectively no more than 180 hues can be distinguished.

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