While the cinematic courtyard is enticing, the most impressive spectacle might be Ross’s Wave Cathedral (2015), which inaugurates a warehouse that MASS MoCA renovated just in time for the show. Designed like a corridor, the installation consists of two vast LED screens, 13-by-23 feet, which are animated by Ross’s fluid images. “I had an interest in filming high-definition video of waves, but technically it proved to be impossible. About a year ago, I began thinking about how I could create water movement with a computer,” explains Ross, who harnessed Hollywood animation technology in order to create his naturalistic abstractions. “The waves themselves are made out of dots of light. We created a way to move 1.6 million points of light in a manner that mimics the always surprising movement of the sea. It’s better and bolder than I could’ve imagined.”