Josef Albers/Donald Judd, Form and Color
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PaceWildenstein (57th Street)
Midtown
32 East 57th Street, 2nd Floor, (212) 421-3292
January 26 - February 24, 2007
Opening: Friday, January 26, 6 - 8PM
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Josef Albers, Variation on Homage to the Square, 1961, oil on aluminum, 20 × 20 inches . Courtesy of PaceWildenstein, New York, Photo by: Kerry Ryan McFate.Josef Albers / Donald Judd: Form and Color pairs together two seminal artists with very different theoretical approaches to color, but whose results were strikingly similar. It features 15 oil paintings by Albers from 1947 to 1967 and 11 sculptures by Judd from 1977 to 1994.
Judd held Albers in high esteem throughout his career, and Albers' use of color was a great influence on him. Both artists' also based their compositions on pure geometry, creating formal structures that allowed color to dominate. This intimate grouping of paintings and sculptures provides an in-depth analysis of both artists' serial nature, their on-going fascination with color theory, and a remarkable awareness of the other's creative output.