Robert Irwin, an installation artist who started in the 1960s, is most closely tied to the light and space movement. His work deals directly with light and space. As he himself puts it: “It’s about everything existing in a context.” He believes that art plays a role in which it changes our perception. The goal he has in mind for his work seems to be to bring you (the audience and viewer) to awareness and focus you on every day things. It also seems that not only does he have an intimacy with art, but that he would like to share this intimacy with his audience as well.

In his more recent work, Irwin has used primary colors in abstract ways. His objective in this appears to be to suspend the viewer in an experience. He does this by taking these colors out of context and putting them into a completely different context of his own making. Irwin creates a context for these colors, which is unique to each viewer. By taking primary colors out of context and putting them into a vague context, he lets his audience create there own context for the piece.