Using glass, paint, light and other materials, Spencer Finch makes artworks that mimic natural effects, such as fog in an Emily Dickinson poem or the atmosphere of Monet’s Giverny. Now on view at James Cohan Gallery, his latest body of work pays homage to the decades-long influence of Japanese aesthetics on his practice. Watercolor paintings overlaying contemporary views of New York and Hiroshige’s One Hundred Famous Views of Edo from the mid-19th century offer fragmentary but tantalizing glimpses of urban landscape. Here, Finch’s stained-glass panels installed over the gallery windows create the effect of light reflected in a New England pond, recalling moon-viewing traditions in Japan. (On view through Oct 4th in Tribeca).
