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Erskine Solar Spectrum Art. © 2024 Peter Erskine, all rights reserved. • Email Peter Erskine • (310)663-4442 • English only, please. Peter Erskine uses Sunlight, prisms and architecture to create ever-changing, rainbow-light-environments that heal and awaken our hearts and minds.
1. Sept. 2001 · Erskine experimented with prisms over a three-month period to articulate the gate’s complexity with spectrum light. One strategy was to make spectrum light from the openings on the south penetrate the dark corridors and stairways to the north. Viewers were surprised to see pure spectrum sunlight burning into the drab brick of the ...
- Bringing Mother Nature Into A Building
- Erskine Solar Spectrum Environmental Art
- Solar Powered Sustainable Art
- Making History
- A New Kind of Public Art
- Sustainable Art For The Coming Solar Age
- Origins
- Admiring James Turrell and Olafur Ellison
- Rainbows to Nature
Can you remember a time you saw a living rainbow glowing in the sky? How that first glimpse took your breath away, and brought a burst of joy? Now imagine stepping inside a twenty foot high solar rainbow beam you can actually reach out and touch – with colors so rich, no photo or video could ever hope to capture them.
As the Earth spins, circling the Sun, huge living rainbows slowly glide through an Erskine natural light installation, gradually changing shape and color with the seasons. The entire space becomes a giant prismatic sundial linking us to the cosmos. The architecture is experienced as a grand unified gesture, quietly resonating with the serene beauty...
Peter Erskine’s Solar Spectrum Environmental Art is based on three big ideas: 1. Sunlight is energy. 2. All life is solar powered. 3. Everything is connected to everything else. In Erskine’s art, our Sun is not only the subject matter of the work, but the medium and energy source as well.
In 1990 Erskine invented a new Solar Spectrum Environmental Art medium he named Secrets of the Sun: Millennial Meditations (S.O.S.). More than something to be looked at,S.O.S. is a immersive participatory experience. It is Erskine’s meditation on the beauty and dangers of human interaction with Solar radiation: The beauty of the rainbow, and the ho...
In 1993, Secrets of the Sun: Millennial Meditations traveled to Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt and in 1995 to Los Angeles’ historic Union Station. From the beginning, Erskine’s solar spectrum public art received extraordinary coverage in the global media, including seven magazine cover stories in four languages, over 100 press articles, and si...
Each of Erskine’s light art installations grows organically from the Solar, cultural and architectural context of its Place. All of Erskine’s site specific environmental art installations are powered by hundreds, or even thousands of watts of renewable solar energy. S.O.S. Rome employed a 10′ x 10′ heliostat solar tracking mirror that reflected up ...
After Erskine graduated from Yale in 1963 with a bachelors degree in Political Science, he traveled to India on a Fulbright Fellowship. Fresh from completing two Yale Graduate School studio art courses his senior year, he became enthralled with the play of light on the sensual relief surfaces of classical Indian temple sculpture. That formal vocabu...
Erskine greatly admires Light and Space artist James Turrell, creator of nature paced SkySpaces, artworks that enable viewers to slow down and experience the celestial pace of life right here, down on the ground of planet Earth. Olafur Eliason’s, installations also inspire Erskine. He finds Olafur’s works – employing elemental materials like light,...
“In the beginning of my Solar Spectrum installations of the eighties, I could only figure out how to paint with Nature in the darkened spaces of my studio, or in a darkened museum gallery. Since then, I’ve evolved ways to work with Sunlight in the broader, built environment. Now my canvas stretches to the bright interior spaces of hospitals, librar...
Peter Erskine (born 1941) is an American artist who specializes in creating solar spectrum environmental artworks using light.
Erskine Solar Spectrum Environmental Art Peter Erskine uses prisms and mirrors to manipulate ordinary Sunlight. He creates immersive, ever-changing, rainbow light environments that heal and...
Peter Erskine, Sculptor. 1975 SE Crystal Lake Dr. #232. tel. 310-663-4442. email: petererskine@earthlink.net. Born: June 17, 1941, New Haven, Connecticut. In 1989 Peter Erskine created a new Solar Spectrum Environmental Art medium called Secrets of the Sun: Millennial Meditations (S.O.S.). S.O.S. is about the beauty and dangers of Sunlight: the ...
In 1989, Peter Erskine created a new, immersive Solar art medium he named Secrets of the Sun: Millennial Meditations (S.O.S.) S.O.S. is about the beauty and dangers of Sunlight: the beauty of the rainbow and the horrors of global warming, ozone depletion and mass species extinction.
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