Sequence

Dan Flavin

Donald Judd

Sol LeWitt

Robert Mangold

Brice Marden

Susan Sheehan Gallery is pleased to present Sequence, an exhibition exploring the serial experiments of a group of leading post-war American artists including Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, and Brice Marden. The presentation covers several rare and complete print portfolios that delineate the possibilities of systematic sequence, arrangement, and succession, concepts inherently embedded in the serial processes of printmaking as a medium.

Ideas of seriality were percolating in the thoughts of many artists of the generation, especially central to those working in and peripheral to Minimalism and Conceptual art movements. The selected artists in this group presentation were all drawn to and dedicated to experiments in repetition, balance, and iterative geometries, engaging in various investigations of color theory, optics, and the construction of visual understanding and experience through sequential patterns.

Highlights in the show include (to Don Judd, colorist) 1-7, an extraordinary series of seven monochromatic lithographs in saturated hues by Dan Flavin, dedicated to his good friend and collaborator Donald Judd. The lithographic plates were inked edge-to-edge with an even application of color, most of which were straight out of the can, that overruns the papers’ deckled edges on three sides.

Exhibited on the facing wall is Donald Judd’s exceptionally rare set of 13 woodcuts in cadmium red and cerulean blue that were selected to be republished by Judd and Edition der Galerie Heiner Friedrich in 1969. They depict Judd’s various iterations on parallelograms and their corresponding mirror images and elaborate his interest in lines, intervals, and divisions of pictorial space.

Complete sets by Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, and Brice Marden are also featured in the show.