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Joseph Albers & Donald Judd at the Brooke Alexander Gallery, 59 Wooster to May 21st
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A prerequisite for this show is buying into the premise that art can be reduced to pure color and structure as advanced by both artists. No mark-making or at least very little takes place here. Nor is there any emotion expressed besides what the color itself offers. Albers and Judd were true conceptualists; far more so then the so-called movement of the 70s ever produced. By removing nearly all the trace elements of emotion in favor of the purity of the visual components they effectively combined ‘Concept’ with ‘Art’ into objects that don’t require reams of written material for explanation as was otherwise common for the Conceptualists. This type of work, given its neat precision, is what visually- inclined scientists and mathematicians could easily love. Those looking for a painterly sensibility need look elsewhere.
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Donald Judd at the Brooke Alexander Gallery
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This exhibition is especially interesting for combining these two artists. As described above there are obvious and natural similarities between their work. What remains then is to flesh out the differences. To begin with, Judd was more the purist for completely shunning illusion and anything painterly in his work. You see the evidence of it here in his precisely constructed sculptures and orderly serialized block prints. Whether he truly distilled art to its most
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