
Atlas Obscura
‘Straight Flush’ in Toronto, Ontario
American light artist James Turrell creates big, bold installations that generate worldwide fanfare, like his Roden Crater in Arizona or Skyspaces built into mountains or accessed through a swimming pool. But sometimes a Turrell work lives quietly amongst us. In downtown Toronto’s busy financial district, thousands of suits walk past a James Turrell daily. The artwork, entitled Straight Flush,…
sequence of five large rectangles of light