Location: Cathedral Cloister
A meditative light journey into the past.
Known for creating artwork for outdoor locations and public spaces, American artist Adam Frelin will present a new installation to complement the largest Cathedral in England. Replicating the shape and scale of the Durham Cathedral’s cloister arches, he creates an elusive and ethereal inner cloister that mirrors the physical one. Inner Cloister will light in sequence to emulate the passage of monks of old who would have walked around these corridors for hundreds of years. As Frelin says, ‘like the past the artwork functions as a parallel place in space, time, and meaning that we can look into, but never enter.’
About Adam Frelin
Adam Frelin (b.1973, Grove City, PA) has shown widely at venues such as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Getty Research Institute, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, and Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis. He has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, and College Art Association. Frelin has completed residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell Colony, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Ucross Foundation, Fine Arts Work Center, and Yaddo, among others. He has published two books of photography and has had several public artworks commissioned throughout the world. Most notably, he and his team were awarded a $1 million Public Art Challenge grant through Bloomberg Philanthropies for which Frelin was Lead Artist on Breathing Lights, a multi-city temporary art installation that involves illuminating abandoned buildings with a breathing effect created with light.
Frelin received a BFA from Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and an MFA University of California, San Diego. Currently he is an Associate Professor of art at the SUNY University at Albany, and lives in Troy, NY.