Artist: Dan Flavin ( - )
Artworks in Museum Collections: (3)
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Daniel Chester Flavin - Untitled (For Ellen) 1975 flourescent lights a Des Moines Art Center American
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Dan Flavin - Monument for V. Tatlin 1969 flourescent tubes The Detroit Institute of Art American
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Dan Flavin - untitled (to Barnett Newman to commemorate his simple problem, red, yellow, and blue) 1970 red, yellow, and blu National Gallery of Art American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (19)
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Guggenheim, Berlin: Dan Flavin: The Architecture of Light
In the early 1960s, Flavin began experimenting with fluorescent lights in combination with simple wooden constructions, which he quickly abandoned in favor of the unadorned fixture. Having embraced the industrial fluorescent light as an aesthetic ...
Dia Center for the Arts: Special Exhibition and Permanent Installation Provide Overview of Two Decades of Dan Flavin s Work
On view in the first-floor gallery, icons, 1961-1963, includes works that represent early manifestations of the artist's enduring preoccupation with simple forms and electric light. For the works in this series, Flavin combined painted boxes ...
Dia Center for the Arts: Dan Flavin Art Institute: Two Decades of Flavin's Work
On view in the first-floor gallery, "icons, 1961-1963" includes works that represent early manifestations of the artist's enduring preoccupation with simple forms and electric light. For this series, Flavin combined painted boxes with fluorescent ...
Dan Flavin Art Institute: Icons, 1961 - 1963
On view in the first-floor gallery, "icons, 1961-1963" includes works that represent early manifestations of the artist's enduring preoccupation with simple forms and electric light. In his series "icons," Flavin combined painted boxes with flu...
Chinati Foundation: Open House Celebration to Inaugurate Large-Scale Work in Fluorescent Light by Dan Flavin
Artist Donald Judd (1928-1994) founded the Chinati Foundation, an independent museum for contemporary art in far West Texas, in 1986. Chinati's mission is to present ...
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Palazzo della Gran Guardia: La percezione dello spazio: Panza di Biumo collection - Guggenheim NY
They represent one of the most important collections of contemporary art in the world and together offer a significant critical overview of Minimalism, Conceptual Art and Environmental Art (1960s-1970s). At the beginning of the 1990s a major part ...
Americas Society: Puerto Rican Light: Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla
"Traffic Patterns" consists of a drop ceiling containing a unique lighting system that will synchronize the light in the gallery space with a traffic light in the city of San Juan, PR. The gallery will be illuminated for some minutes with red ...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Vision and Reality - Conceptions of the 20th Century
Louisianas story of the 20th century falls into chapters linking contemporary and classical modern art. Its point of departure is the great 20th-century avant-garde movements: Russian Constructiv...
Kettle's Yard Gallery, University of Cambridge: Fred Sandback: Sculptures and Drawings
Distinctively, Sandback developed a way of working that dispensed with the mass and weight of materials, and ultimately used acrylic yarn, sometimes multi-coloured, stretched across architectural space. He made sculptures whose factual existen...
Dia:Beacon: Agnes Martin: Unknown Territory
Shown in the diffused natural light of Dia's galleries, this exhibition makes available classic works rarely seen due to their fragility and rarity. Closing November 7, 2005, "unknown territory" will be followed in December 2005 by an installation...
Hudson River Museum: The Magic of Light: Artists Focusing on Non-Traditional Media
The Magic of Light displays the work of both established and emerging American artists. James Turrell, part of the Light-and-Space movement of the 1960s and 1970s along with Robert Irwin, works with pure light, while his main goal is the viewer...
Texas Fine Arts Association at Jones Center for Contemporary Art: Glow: Aspects of Light in Contemporary American Art
Light, which makes vision possible, has always been a component of visual art, although in certain periods light has been more significant than in others. The tenebrism of Caravaggio and de la Tour, for example, represents the use of light in the...
Ohio Art League: Ohio Art League Annual Spring Juried Exhibition
The show includes a broad and diverse range of media, technique and subject matter, including painting, photography, collage, printmaking, artist’s books, ceramics, glass, sculpture, jewelry, and video. Within those categories viewers will see wor...
van Gogh Museum: Go(gh) Modern
The presentation is subdivided into four sections, each featuring a different aspect of Van Gogh's affect on contemporary art, and includes paintings, sculptures and videos by various artists and movements - from Appel and Kiefer to Nauman and War...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao: Changing Perceptions: The Panza Collection
Dr. and Mrs. Giuseppe Panza di Biumo began acquiring art in 1956; today, together with private holdings, the Panza collection includes over 2,500 works. Between 1966 and 1975 the Panzas amassed one of the most ambitious collections of...
Palazzo Ducale: Arti and Architettura: 1900 - 2000
A utopian adventure, encroaching sometimes into “archisculpture”, whose protagonists – artists and architects from Kazimir Malevich to Vladmir Tatlin, from Antonio Sant'Elia to Giuseppe Terragni, from Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to Piet Mondrian, f...
Albright-Knox Art Gallery: Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture
Kudos to Holly E. Hughes for curating a show so startling, so slyly subversive, it worms its way into your skin before you even realize it. It’s one of the best I’ve ever seen. Here is body as locus of the commercial and the contemplative; as s...

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