Hap Tivey
Hap Tivey is an American installation artist based in New York. He was a key member of the first generation of artists in America in the 60s and 70s whose work contributed to the coining of the term ‘installation art’, having lived as a Zen monk in Japan for a number of years that gave additional foundation to his experimentation with light as a form approaching ideas of emptiness.
Hap Tivey began creating light installations and sculptures during the late sixties in Los Angeles. For more than thirty years, Tivey’s...