Donald Judd, 980 Madison Avenue, New York, May 13–July 14, 2023

Installation Views

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Installation view. Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Installation view
Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view with Donald Judd, untitled, (1965). Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Installation view with Donald Judd
untitled, (1965)
Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view with Donald Judd, untitled (1964–74). Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Installation view with Donald Judd, untitled (1964–74)
Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Installation view with Donald Judd, untitled (1979). Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Installation view with Donald Judd, untitled (1979)
Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Installation view. Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Installation view with Donald Judd, untitled, (1965). Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Installation view with Donald Judd, untitled (1964–74). Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Installation view with Donald Judd, untitled (1979). Artwork © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Works Exhibited

Donald Judd, untitled, 1965. Galvanized iron, 6 × 27 × 26 inches (15.2 × 68.6 × 66 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Barratt — Donald Judd
untitled, 1965
Galvanized iron, 6 × 27 × 26 inches (15.2 × 68.6 × 66 cm)
© Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Barratt

Donald Judd, untitled, 1980. Galvanized iron and plexiglass, in 10 parts, overall: 120 × 27 × 24 inches (304.8 × 68.6 × 61 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Donald Judd
untitled, 1980
Galvanized iron and plexiglass, in 10 parts, overall: 120 × 27 × 24 inches (304.8 × 68.6 × 61 cm)
© Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Donald Judd, untitled, 1988. Anodized aluminum, in 10 parts, overall: 120 × 27 × 24 inches (304.8 × 68.6 × 61 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Donald Judd
untitled, 1988
Anodized aluminum, in 10 parts, overall: 120 × 27 × 24 inches (304.8 × 68.6 × 61 cm)
© Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Donald Judd, untitled, 1990. Anodized aluminum and bronze plexiglass, in 10 parts, overall: 120 × 27 × 24 inches (304.8 × 68.6 × 61 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Donald Judd
untitled, 1990
Anodized aluminum and bronze plexiglass, in 10 parts, overall: 120 × 27 × 24 inches (304.8 × 68.6 × 61 cm)
© Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Donald Judd, untitled, 1991. Acrylic on Douglas fir plywood and aluminum, 19 ½ × 45 × 30 inches (49.5 × 114.3 × 76.2 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Barratt — Donald Judd
untitled, 1991
Acrylic on Douglas fir plywood and aluminum, 19 ½ × 45 × 30 inches (49.5 × 114.3 × 76.2 cm)
© Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Barratt

Donald Judd, untitled, 1991. Clear anodized aluminum with black plexiglass, 9 ⅞ × 39 ⅜ × 9 ⅞ inches (24.9 × 99.9 × 24.9 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Martin Wong — Donald Judd
untitled, 1991
Clear anodized aluminum with black plexiglass, 9 ⅞ × 39 ⅜ × 9 ⅞ inches (24.9 × 99.9 × 24.9 cm)
© Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Martin Wong

Donald Judd, untitled, 1991. Clear anodized aluminum with light blue plexiglass, 9 ⅞ × 39 ⅜ × 9 ⅞ inches (25 × 100 × 25 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Donald Judd
untitled, 1991
Clear anodized aluminum with light blue plexiglass, 9 ⅞ × 39 ⅜ × 9 ⅞ inches (25 × 100 × 25 cm)
© Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Donald Judd, untitled, 1992–93. 20 woodcuts in 10 colors on handmade Hanji paper, each: 23 ⅝ × 31 ½ inches (60 × 80 cm), edition of 25 + 5 AP © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever — Donald Judd
untitled, 1992–93
20 woodcuts in 10 colors on handmade Hanji paper, each: 23 ⅝ × 31 ½ inches (60 × 80 cm), edition of 25 + 5 AP
© Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Donald Judd, untitled, 1965. Galvanized iron, 6 × 27 × 26 inches (15.2 × 68.6 × 66 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Barratt

Thumbnail - Donald Judd, untitled, 1980. Galvanized iron and plexiglass, in 10 parts, overall: 120 × 27 × 24 inches (304.8 × 68.6 × 61 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Donald Judd, untitled, 1988. Anodized aluminum, in 10 parts, overall: 120 × 27 × 24 inches (304.8 × 68.6 × 61 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Donald Judd, untitled, 1990. Anodized aluminum and bronze plexiglass, in 10 parts, overall: 120 × 27 × 24 inches (304.8 × 68.6 × 61 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Donald Judd, untitled, 1991. Acrylic on Douglas fir plywood and aluminum, 19 ½ × 45 × 30 inches (49.5 × 114.3 × 76.2 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Thomas Barratt

Thumbnail - Donald Judd, untitled, 1991. Clear anodized aluminum with black plexiglass, 9 ⅞ × 39 ⅜ × 9 ⅞ inches (24.9 × 99.9 × 24.9 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Martin Wong

Thumbnail - Donald Judd, untitled, 1991. Clear anodized aluminum with light blue plexiglass, 9 ⅞ × 39 ⅜ × 9 ⅞ inches (25 × 100 × 25 cm) © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

Thumbnail - Donald Judd, untitled, 1992–93. 20 woodcuts in 10 colors on handmade Hanji paper, each: 23 ⅝ × 31 ½ inches (60 × 80 cm), edition of 25 + 5 AP © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photo: Rob McKeever

About

Usually when someone says a thing is too simple, they’re saying that certain familiar things aren’t there.
—Donald Judd

Gagosian is pleased to announce an exhibition of works dating from 1965 to 1991 by Donald Judd (1928–1994) across the gallery’s 976 and 980 Madison Avenue locations in New York.

The exhibition features fifteen of Judd’s objects made with some of his primary materials, including anodized and painted aluminum, galvanized iron, colored plexiglass, and plywood. The works’ carefully considered proportions emphasize their materials’ intrinsic qualities and relationships between part and whole.

Judd began as a painter in the 1950s, but by the early 1960s he came to focus on three-dimensional forms. He developed an art that exists on its own determinedly physical terms, removed from notions of metaphor or illusion. To this end, he designated that his works were untitled and originated new terms to describe them, including “wall piece”—a single unit or multiple units designed to hang on the wall—and “floor piece”—a work that stands directly on the floor without a traditional sculptural pedestal.

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From the Quarterly

Donald Judd: Untitled: 1970

In this video, Flavin Judd, the artist’s son and artistic director of Judd Foundation, discusses a historic large-scale work by his father from 1970, ahead of its presentation at Art Basel Unlimited 2024.

Now available
Gagosian Quarterly Fall 2022

The Fall 2022 issue of Gagosian Quarterly is now available, featuring Jordan Wolfson’s House with Face (2017) on its cover.

There is No Neutral Space: The Architecture of Donald Judd, Part 2

In this second installment of a two-part essay, Julian Rose continues his exploration of Donald Judd’s engagement with architecture. Here, he examines the artist’s proposals for projects in Bregenz, Austria, and in Basel, arguing that Judd’s approach to shaping space provides a model for contemporary architectural production.

Building a Legacy
Judd Foundation Archives

Richard Shiff speaks with Caitlin Murray, director of archives and programs at Judd Foundation, about the archive of Donald Judd, how to approach materials that occupy the gray area between document and art, and some of the considerations unique to stewarding an archive housed within and adjacent to spaces conceived by the artist.

There Is No Neutral Space: The Architecture of Donald Judd, Part 1

Julian Rose explores the question: what does it mean for an artist to make architecture? Delving into the archives of Donald Judd, he examines three architectural projects by the artist. Here, in the first installment of a two-part essay, he begins with an invitation in Bregenz, Austria, in the early 1990s, before turning to an earlier project, in Marfa, Texas, begun in 1979.

In Conversation
Eileen Costello, Marta Kuzma, and Caitlin Murray on Donald Judd: Paintings

Art historian Eileen Costello and Yale School of Art professor Marta Kuzma discuss Donald Judd’s two-dimensional work and how the lessons he learned from the innovations of Abstract Expressionist and Color Field paintings permeate his entire body of work. Their conversation is moderated by Caitlin Murray, director of archives and programs at Judd Foundation.

In Conversation
Peter Ballantine and Martha Buskirk on Donald Judd

Peter Ballantine, Donald Judd’s longtime fabricator of plywood works, and Martha Buskirk, professor of art history and criticism at Montserrat College of Art in Beverly, Massachusetts, discuss the development, production, and history of the largest plywood construction Judd ever made, an untitled work from 1980.

Behind the Art
Donald Judd: Exhibition Tour

In this video, Flavin Judd, the artist’s son and artistic director of Judd Foundation, leads a walkthrough of the exhibition Donald Judd: Artwork: 1980 at Gagosian, West 21st Street, New York. Flavin connects the work to the concurrent retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the permanent installations in Marfa, Texas, highlighting how it fits within Judd’s oeuvre.

Donald Judd: Artwork: 1980

Flavin Judd, the artist’s son and artistic director of Judd Foundation, speaks with Kara Vander Weg about the recent installation of the sculptor’s eighty-foot-long plywood work from 1980 at Gagosian, New York.