James Turrell and Alice Aycock: Still Facing Off on Google Maps

by Art Fag City on March 26, 2009 · 21 comments Events

James Turrell, Art Fag City, Light Reign, Google maps
James Turrell, Light Reign— Henry Art Gallery (Seattle, WA), 4100 15th Ave. N., Seattle, WA

James Turrell and Alice Aycock sculptures need to kick it up a notch; neither yield particularly interesting Google map results thus far. For those just catching up with us, yesterday Art Fag City issued a reader challenge: Seek out as many outdoor sculptures by the aforementioned artists, and those who attend the final day of the search Saturday at Capricious space will garner themselves a limited edition zine of our search results. Also through this challenge we’ll finally have an answer to which artist is the most satellite friendly.

Here at the HQ we spent a bit of time searching out a few sculptures, which we’ve listed below.  Apologies to Alice Aycock, who clearly should be out in the lead — we simply got to her later, and haven’t searched some of the larger outdoor sculptures.  Look forward to a full list of works likely to be found on Google tomorrow!

JAMES TURRELL

James Turrell, Art Fag City, Live Oak Friends Meeting HouseJames Turrell, Skyspace– Live Oak Friends Meeting House (Houston, TX), 1318 W 26th St, Houston, TX 77008

This may be cheating, but the satellite view resembled nothing, so we posted the Google Street view of the building.  Whatever art aura this piece has, we’ve successfully removed it.

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James Turrell, The Light Inside— Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX)
1001 Bissonnet Street Houston, TX 77005

Don’t bother searching for this piece — it’s inside the museum.  In an effort to be thorough however, we’re providing a link to building anyway.

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Art Fag City, James Turrell, Hi Test, Mondrian Hotel, google maps
Hi Test– Mondrian Hotel (West Hollywoof, CA)
8440 Sunset Blvd., West Hollywood, CA”Ž
Google Map link.

I assume the Turrell Skylight is there somewhere.

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James Turrell, Milk Run— Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden (Washington, DC), Independence Avenue SW & 7th Street SW, Washington, DC 20004

Another enclosed space that looks a little too inconsequential to post.  Google map link here.

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James Turrell, Atlan— Art Tower Mito (Ibaraki, Japan)

We’ve got nothing!

ALICE AYCOCK


Alice Aycock, Swing Over— George H. Fallon Office Building (Baltimore, MD)
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Alice Aycock, What the Traveler Needs for Mechanical Operations on the Stars— Philadelphia International Airport (Philadelphia, PA)
No need to search this puppy out: it’s an indoor sculpture.   But here‘s a Google map anyway.
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Alice Aycock, Strange Attractor— Kansas City International Airport(Kansas City, MO)

We couldn’t locate the actual sculpture, but the Google map is here.

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Alice Aycock, Tuning Fork Oracle, Bloustein Building, Rutgers University, 1997

Admittedly, it’s probably necessary to have spent a fair amount of time art Rutgers University to locate that blip on the map.  As a graduate I’m sufficiently qualified.

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Alice Aycock, Maze 2000— University of South Florida (Tampa, FL), 4202 E Fowler Ave, Tampa, FL 33620

Thanks to Stead for locating this for us!

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Stead March 26, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Stead March 26, 2009 at 1:26 pm
kevinb March 26, 2009 at 6:28 pm

I’m sorry to say it, but these aren’t very convincing. It seems like cheating to tag the roof of a building.

I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan. We have a fair bit of good public art for a mid-sized city. I decided to tag a bunch on one google map, here it is:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108863415102944586968.00046608f03820297a090&t=h&z=13

kevinb March 26, 2009 at 1:28 pm

I’m sorry to say it, but these aren’t very convincing. It seems like cheating to tag the roof of a building.

I’m from Grand Rapids, Michigan. We have a fair bit of good public art for a mid-sized city. I decided to tag a bunch on one google map, here it is:

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF8&hl=en&msa=0&msid=108863415102944586968.00046608f03820297a090&t=h&z=13

Robert March 26, 2009 at 7:56 pm

I don’t know the exact address of the house, but but across the street form the linked address below, and a little to the east, is a privately owned Turrell in Brentwood. It’s the white cube with the hole in the middle.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=11942+brentwood+grove+Dr,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90049&sll=34.07795,-118.478204&sspn=0.00343,0.006952&ie=UTF8&ll=34.077821,-118.477611&spn=0.001715,0.003476&t=h&z=19

Robert March 26, 2009 at 2:56 pm

I don’t know the exact address of the house, but but across the street form the linked address below, and a little to the east, is a privately owned Turrell in Brentwood. It’s the white cube with the hole in the middle.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=11942+brentwood+grove+Dr,+Los+Angeles,+CA+90049&sll=34.07795,-118.478204&sspn=0.00343,0.006952&ie=UTF8&ll=34.077821,-118.477611&spn=0.001715,0.003476&t=h&z=19

Art Fag City March 26, 2009 at 8:03 pm

Kevinb: Don’t be sorry to say it. You’re right. In fact I believe I mentioned that in the post itself. And yet, it still took several hours to complete what’s up there now.

Thanks for the map. Any chance you’ve located public sculptures by the two artists in question.

Art Fag City March 26, 2009 at 3:03 pm

Kevinb: Don’t be sorry to say it. You’re right. In fact I believe I mentioned that in the post itself. And yet, it still took several hours to complete what’s up there now.

Thanks for the map. Any chance you’ve located public sculptures by the two artists in question.

greg.org March 26, 2009 at 11:05 pm
greg.org March 26, 2009 at 6:05 pm
greg.org March 26, 2009 at 11:06 pm

whoops.

greg.org March 26, 2009 at 6:06 pm

whoops.

Lauren Weinberg March 27, 2009 at 12:26 pm

Here’s the University of Illinois at Chicago’s 2006 Skyspace, at the charming intersection of Roosevelt and Halsted: http://tinyurl.com/dlmrqy

Lauren Weinberg March 27, 2009 at 5:26 pm

Here’s the University of Illinois at Chicago’s 2006 Skyspace, at the charming intersection of Roosevelt and Halsted: http://tinyurl.com/dlmrqy

Claire March 27, 2009 at 7:55 pm

Turrell’s Tending (Blue) at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas

On the satellite image you can see the skylight hole that provides the light for the piece at the back of the garden:

here

Claire March 27, 2009 at 2:55 pm

Turrell’s Tending (Blue) at the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas

On the satellite image you can see the skylight hole that provides the light for the piece at the back of the garden:

here

Eric Sutphin March 28, 2009 at 4:17 am

There are two other Aycock pieces on Douglas campus at Rutgers. One little hive-like “low house” and another mechanized sculpture with neon, surprised they didn”t pop up

Eric Sutphin March 27, 2009 at 11:17 pm

There are two other Aycock pieces on Douglas campus at Rutgers. One little hive-like “low house” and another mechanized sculpture with neon, surprised they didn”t pop up

John Rozdilsky August 13, 2009 at 5:38 pm

The google view of Turrell’s skyspace in Seattle has the exhaust tower for the heating plant circled. The skyspace is actually to the south of the Henry Art Gallery. It is elliptical in outline not like the round exhaust tower.

John Rozdilsky August 13, 2009 at 12:38 pm

The google view of Turrell’s skyspace in Seattle has the exhaust tower for the heating plant circled. The skyspace is actually to the south of the Henry Art Gallery. It is elliptical in outline not like the round exhaust tower.

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