Donald Judd: Drawings
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
23 May - 29 June 1996
SUSAN INGLETT GALLERY
100 Wooster Street, New York
www.inglettgallery.com
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
23 May - 29 June 1996
Susan Inglett presents an exhibition of drawings by DONALD JUDD curated by David Platzker.
While Donald Judd was best known for his sculptures, or "specific-objects", his drawings present the best rare evidence of the artist's own hand.
For the Minimalists, absence of hand was as much an artistic gesture as a political one. In their efforts to redefine and perfect the art object, Donald Judd and contemporaries including Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, and Robert Morris, regularly engaged professional fabricators. By doing so drawing became a necessary tool to communicate the particulars of the work to be executed.
Additionally, Donald Judd made drawings in order to document sculpture produced or as project proposals. The drawings presented in this exhibition dated 1964 to 1984 describe proposals for a selection of metal and concrete sculptures.
They are, in essence, the raw material from which Donald Judd would hone, refine, perfect his consummate "specific-object".
SUSAN INGLETT GALLERY
100 Wooster Street, New York
www.inglettgallery.com
