Prismatic Effect: A Conversation with Charles Ross
Sunday, October 27, at 1 PM | Getty Center & Online
For the second “Rotunda Commission,” a series of art installations inspired by the Getty Museum’s collection, architecture, and site, American artist Charles Ross created a site-specific work centered on natural light, time, and planetary motion. Spectrum 14 is a calibrated array of prisms that casts luminous color across the Museum’s rotunda and evolves with the seasonal arc of the sun. In this conversation with curator Glenn Phillips, Ross talks about his storied career—from early collaborations with Judson Dance Theater, to engagements with the minimal and land art movements, to his decades-long work with light and prisms.
Complements the PST ART exhibition Lumen: The Art and Science of Light at the Getty Center from September 10–December 8, 2024.
Copies of Charles Ross: The Substance of Light is available at the Getty Museum shop.
Free | Advance ticket required | Get Tickets
Charles Ross: The Substance of Light
“The definitive survey of Charles Ross’s career.”
—Khristaan D. Vilela, New Mexico Magazine
Essays by Thomas McEvilley and Klaus Ottmann
Interview between Loïc Malle and Charles Ross
Historical texts by Virginia Dwan, Anna Halprin, Michael Heizer, Steve Katz, Donald Kuspit, Ed Ranney, and Jean-Hubert Martin
CHARLES ROSS’s fascination with light, time, and the space of the stars has given life to a rich artistic career that includes a major earthwork, large-scale prism installations, sculpture, and painting with dynamite. From Star Axis, a vast architectonic earth/star work in the New Mexican desert, to his Solar Burns series made by burning wood panel monochromes with focused rays of the sun, Ross allows the natural patterns and forces of the cosmos to inform his work.
This significant monograph includes major essays by Thomas McEvilley and Klaus Ottmann, an extensive interview with Loïc Malle, which profiles Ross’s life and art up to the present, as well as historical texts by Virginia Dwan, Anna Halprin, Michael Heizer, Steve Katz, Donald Kuspit, Ed Ranney, and Jean-Hubert Martin.
$65