Doug Wheeler
After working on his portfolio independently for a handful of years, he enrolled in the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles (known today as CalArts) in 1961, graduating in 1965.[11][12] The noted Italian collector of American post-war art, Giuseppe Panza di Biumo was an enduring supporter of Wheeler’s and acquired the drawings of this period in 1975.[1] During the late 1960s, Wheeler began working on his Encasements, slender squares of monochrome plastic with neon lights embedded along the edges, intended to be installed in white rooms with coved corners.[1] It was widely lauded for its seamless luminous installation, within which within which light replicates the transition from dawn to dusk which also marked the city’s first infinity room environment of this scale.When I first walked in here, even before construction, I knew that it was going to be a very hard thing to do.”[15] Even with his notable early success, the particular uniqueness of his works has made them complex to install and therefore fewer in frequency.