World-Renowned Artist James Turrell to Create Permanent Installation to Light Franklin Park Conservatory’s Historic Palm House

 Limited Brands Foundation Supports Commission with $1 Million Gift

(November 1, 2007 – Columbus, Ohio) – Franklin Park Conservatory announced today that it has commissioned a major, new, permanent light installation that will illuminate the historic Palm House. This work by artist James Turrell, one of the foremost artists working in the world, is made possible through a $1 million gift from Limited Brands Foundation, the charitable arm of the Columbus-based specialty retailer.

The Palm House installation places Franklin Park Conservatory among a rare group of architectural light projects in the United States and among an important list of international projects in France, Japan, Germany and Switzerland. It is set to premier in the fall of 2008.

“We are grateful for the generous support from Limited Brands that enables us to bring the work of this extraordinarily talented artist to central Ohio,” said Bruce Harkey, executive director of the Conservatory. “James Turrell’s architectural light project is a gift to the community that will transform the Palm House and draw visitors from across Ohio and around the globe to Franklin Park to watch the building perform.”

“Limited Brands and The Limited Foundation are pleased to help the Franklin Park Conservatory bring a world-class addition to the central Ohio community. James Turrell’s work has enhanced the livability of cities worldwide, and now Columbus will be in the extraordinary company of those cities,” added Tom Katzenmeyer, senior vice president of investor, media and community relations at Limited Brands. “Our support of this project underwrites all costs of the commission, its design, and its installation, so that the public can enjoy James Turrell’s art while the Conservatory continues the development and implementation of its exceptional strategic plan.”

The Palm House is a Columbus landmark and the Conservatory’s most recognizable and treasured building. Local architect J.M. Freese designed the 1895 Victorian glass house after the famed horticulture building at the World’s Columbian Exposition in

Chicago. The Palm House has a long history as an acclaimed horticulture facility and in recent years has been the site of some of the city’s most important events, including a major exhibition in 2003-04 of Dale Chihuly’s glass sculpture.

With the commission of this new work by Turrell, the building will not be lit in the traditional sense; rather it will be filled with volumes of changing light and color. His
building of astonishing spaces that allow light to be experienced both in its material and its spiritual qualities have lured millions of people to his exhibitions. When the
installation is complete, visitors will experience light as an artistic medium through the interaction of plane, color and space. The light is controlled by a computer program designed by Ben Pearcy, under Turrell’s direction, and delivered through low-voltage light-emitting diode (L.E.D) technology. Turrell uses L.E.D technology because the lights are programmable and allow the mixing of colors within space. Turrell has worked with almost every kind of artificial light, including neon, fiber optics, fluorescents and lasers.

The work of James Turrell has been the subject of more than 140 solo exhibitions worldwide since 1967. Turrell is best known for having spent the past 35 years transforming the Roden Crater, a natural cinder volcano situated on the southwestern edge of the Painted Desert in northern Arizona, into a large-scale artwork. Through the medium of light, the piece relates to the surrounding sky, land and culture. As an observatory, the Roden Crater allows visitors to see celestial phenomena with the naked eye.

Turrell’s work can also be seen at the Henry Museum Art Gallery, Seattle; The Nasher Sculpture Garden, Dallas; Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh; Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Museum of Fine Art, Houston; Panza Collection, Varese, Italy; P.S. 1. Long Island City, New York; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona; and the Springel Museum, Hanover, Germany. Since 1968 Turrell has been the recipient of 19 awards ranging from The John D. and Catherine T. McArthur Foundation Fellowship to being named a Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. James Turrell is represented in the United States by PaceWildenstein.

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