Superblue Miami, an immersive art hub in the city’s Allapattah neighborhood, is celebrating its five-year anniversary with an installation by Light and Space artist James Turrell, Artnet News reports. The piece, titled Blue Sea Sky (2026), marks the artist’s latest installment in his renowned “Ganzfeld” series (1976–).
For the last five decades, Turrell has been making works inspired by the ganzfeld effect (German for “complete field”), a phenomenon that flattens depth perception through a uniform or unstructured stimulation field. Inspired by both flying as a pilot since age 16 and an interest in perceptual psychology, the works in Turrell’s ongoing series typically color otherwise ordinary spaces in rich hues.
The changing colors in Blue Sea Sky draw inspiration from its surroundings, including the blue ocean waters, green palm fronds, orange sunsets, and pink Art Deco neon facades. It replaces another Turrell piece, AKHU (2021), from the same series, which the artist had loaned the museum upon its May 2021 opening.
“Blue Sea Sky brings people together in a shared experience of immersion in pure color, pushing the limits of human perception,” said Superblue cofounder and chief curator Mollie Dent-Brocklehurst in a statement. “It’s difficult to speak about Turrell without including one of his own wonderful quotes. […] ‘In an age of consumerism and materialism, I traffic in blue sky and colored air.’”
Blue Sea Sky is the fifth new work acquired by Superblue since opening its doors to the public. Others include Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s light and sound installation Pulse Topology (2021), installed in 2023, in which visitors’ heartbeats inform the pulse of lights hanging overhead.
This new Turrell piece follows the unveiling of his largest-ever skyspace, As Seen Below (2026), in Denmark earlier this summer.
