How Bees See …

Spencer Finch is represented in the exhibition with two works from his drawing series Following a Bee. His visit provides the occasion for a public conversation exploring how humans and bees perceive the world – touching on observation and shifts in perspective. Finch is known for his poetic investigations of perception as something that exists between physics and memory. His installations make the invisible visible, capture specific moments in time, and draw on scientific data as a foundation for his work. Across media – from painting to sculpture – he explores color, temporality, and the relationship between science and poetry. Somewhere in between lies the question of how bees see – and how we, in turn, watch them see.

Spencer Finch was born in 1962 in New Haven, CT, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. He has participated in major international exhibitions including the Folkestone Triennial (2011), the Venice Biennale (2009), the Turin Triennale (2008), and the Whitney Biennial (2004). Since the early 1990s, his work has been shown widely in the United States and internationally. A major survey exhibition was presented at MASS MoCA in North Adams in 2007/2008, where his long-term installation Cosmic Latte (2017) is also on view. In 2019, Moon Dust was exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art, MD.