JAMES TURRELL: AFTER GLOW

GAGOSIAN is pleased to announce After Glow, a presentation of prints and related works by James Turrell at its gallery in London’s Burlington Arcade.

January 14 - February 20, 2026

These works are linked to Aten Reign, a major 2013 installation at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, and Roden Crater, Turrell’s lifelong, ongoing masterwork—an immersive, site-specific artwork and naked-eye observatory painstakingly embedded within a volcanic cinder cone in Northern Arizona’s Painted Desert, where decades of sustained artistic, architectural, and astronomical research converge.

Turrell works with perceptual phenomena ranging from sensory deprivation to optical effects. In 1966, he began using planes of light in relation to architectural interiors, launching his practice of manipulating built and natural environments. He continues to use light as his primary material, examining the limits of perception and prompting meditative contemplation.

The prints on view in the Burlington Arcade gallery are drawn from Suite from Aten Reign (2014), which explores the luminous qualities of Aten Reign, a skylight installation that fundamentally transformed the perceived space of the Frank Lloyd Wright–designed rotunda at the Guggenheim. Capturing fleeting arrangements of concentric ovals in gradated colors, these woodcuts and etchings with aquatint push the capacity of ink to replicate transitional light effects.

Turrell’s development over the years of Roden Crater is documented in varied mediums, including numerous site plans (1983), the carbon print photograph Roden Crater Blue Sky (2009), and Roden Crater Site Plan along the Summer Solstice Axis (2024), an aerial representation of the site in gold leaf and glass.