... "Anderson also found inspiration during his formative years at Houston’s Rothko Chapel. Named after Russian-born abstract painter Mark Rothko and again founded by John and Dominique de Ménil, the space serves as a non-denominational cathedral as well as a work of modern art. Anderson remembers being particularly transfixed about 30 years ago by an exhibition that encompassed all of Rothko’s career.

“Only in seeing the entire course of his work did I sort of get it,” Anderson says “I saw something take shape in his thinking that was so interesting to me and that never left my mind.” In order to create the right setting for this meditative space, Davie Leslie, Rothko Chapel’s executive director, says Rothko and architect Philip Johnson looked at the entire space as one work — so much so that every installation had to be an exact number of inches from the ground and in a precise spot. “There’s an exactness,” Leslie said. “It all makes the piece of art. Nothing is happenstance.”...