James Turrell: Sky Pesher

Tucked into the hillside beside the Walker Art Center, artist James Turrell's Sky Pesher invites visitors to sit, to look, to think. Created in 2005, Sky Pesher is one of Turrell's so-called Skyspaces, minimalist installations that toy with light and space and quiet. It was commissioned during the Walker's building expansion in 2005, and given new significance on the Walker hillside with Petra Blaisse's landscape design and meandering walkways that journey visitors through the hillside. Tucked into a quiet corner of the Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, a downward path leads to a door and a room. All of it unassuming, at first. But benches beckon. The shape of the place turns your attention upward, to a rectangular opening in the ceiling. It frames the sky — cerulean blue and cloudless one hour, navy the next. "There is no set experience of the work, because the sky is not a set thing," said Pavel Pyś, curator of visual arts at the Walker. "It's an ever-changing portal." The Minneapolis Sculpture Garden is free and open daily, year-round.