Roden Crater, located in the Painted Desert region of Northern Arizona, is an unprecedented large-scale artwork created within a volcanic cinder cone by light and space artist James Turrell.

In the American Southwest, the famed light-bending artist is putting the final touches on Roden Crater, his ambitious, mind-boggling masterpiece

Jan 24, 2019 · American light and space artist James Turrell's best-known work, Roden Crater, is now set to open to the public within the next few years thanks to a series of partnerships and new...

Satellite view of Roden Crater, site of an earthwork in progress by James Turrell outside Flagstaff, Arizona. Roden Crater is a cinder cone type of volcanic cone from an extinct volcano, with a remaining interior volcanic crater. It is located approximately 50 miles northeast of the city of Flagstaff in northern Arizona, United States. [4]

James Turrell is one such artist. In 1974, Turrell discovered the crater as he was looking for a place to build a naked-eye observatory.

6 days ago · For nearly 50 years, James Turrell has been working on a sky observatory nestled in a 400,000-year-old extinct volcano in northern Arizona. Acquired by the American artist in 1977, the Roden Crater and the surrounding site have been transformed over the course of this ambitious project, which features luminous tunnels and galleries that open to ...

James Turrell's Roden Crater is a large-scale artwork transforming a natural cinder volcano in Arizona.

Roden Crater belongs to a tradition of monumental structures that have been built by artists, rulers and priests, ancient and modern. Above-ground observatories for specific celestial events include Maeshowe in Scotland (which predates the pyramids), Newgrange in Ireland, and Abu Simbel in Egypt.

One of the most important large-scale artworks in the world sits in the desert of northern Arizona, where artist James Turrell has spent decades shaping the landscape into an immersive observatory. His creation, Roden Crater, is a masterwork of light and perception inside a dormant volcano, now only seen by a few hundred people every year.

May 14, 2018 · Noted artist James Turrell, whose installations manipulate light and shadows to turn ordinary settings into mystical spaces, has tunneled through, hollowed out and sculpted Roden Crater...