doug wheeler
david zwirner, new york
now through april 5th, 2013

long fascinated by the illusory quality of landscape, american artist doug wheeler presents a luminous installation at david zwirner, new york, their second solo exhibition of the artist’s work. occupying the ground floor gallery, ‘LC 71 NY DZ 13 DW’ is a light and space experience, taking viewers on a physical sojourn of gravity, dimension and time. best known for his seminal light environments developed in the 1960s and 70s, wheeler’s new ‘rotational horizon work’ visually and conceptually connects to his previous ouvure, yet emphasizes the way in which light almost imperceptibly changes along the horizon as the earth turns  by mimicking the sensation of the earth’s rotational pull and curvature, wheeler alters the traditionally static viewing experience of a work of art, thereby destabilizing our innate sense of equilibrium and imparting the feeling of moving with the earth towards an unreachable horizon.