Dan Flavin "Series and Progressions" Exhibition NYC

David Zwirner recently opened its latest exhibition, “Dan Flavin: Series and Progressions”, on November 5th, the first exhibition of the artist’s work at the gallery since it announced that it would be representating the Estate of Dan Flavin two months ago. From 1963, when he conceived the diagonal of May 25, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), a single gold, fluorescent lamp that hangs on a diagonal on the wall—a work which marks the artist’s first use of fluorescent light alone—until his death in 1996, Flavin produced a singularly consistent and prodigious body of work that utilized commercially-available fluorescent lamps to create installations of light and color.

Curated by Tiffany Bell, this exhibition will examine Flavin’s use of progressions and serial structures, ideas that were central to the artist’s practice throughout his career. Flavin has been credited with being “one of the first artists to make use of a basically progressional procedure,” and the systematic arrangement of color and light fixtures define his body of work, which is characterized as Minimalist but has had a huge influence on Conceptual art as a whole.

“Series and Progressions” looks to run through December 19th, 2009 at David Zwirner in New York City.

David Zwirner
525 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
212.517.8677

Source: Paul Mittleman