Having very recently experienced Doug Wheeler’s Day Night Day, I can report that it is absolutely mind-blowing.
Upon entering the gallery, the viewer first encounters two luminous, rectangular thresholds or “walls” of light, which function as points of entry into an expansive environment that simulates the experience of limitless space, or a “ganzfeld,” where light appears to shift from day to night and back again. The viewer’s perception is heightened to a degree in which, as the artist articulates, “space appears as a volume, almost as matter.”
On view in New York until October 19th. Go.