Donald Judd | Untitled (#207 - 210), 1991 – 1994

My name is Barry Whistler. I'm pleased to share a few thoughts on Donald Judd and his four untitled woodcuts in The Lancaster lobby. Judd's work shares concerns of space, architecture, and principles of progression. Instead of using paint and canvas as his medium, he embraced the materials of industrial fabrication. The fact that The Lancaster chose to install its piece of four woodcuts by Judd in a vertical format gives a nod of recognition to his earlier Stacks series. The stack sculptures were begun in the late nineteen 60s and continued into the 90s. They were typically fabricated in aluminum and most often colored plexiglass. They're made up of eight to twelve identical units stacked vertically up a wall. Donald Judd is also strongly identified with Marfa, Texas. He moved there in 1977 from New York, settling into the open spaces of West Texas he soon acquired Fort Russell, a compound of decommissioned military buildings, transforming them into art installation sites. He would go on to establish the Chinati Foundation, exhibiting his work alongside that of his contemporaries, including Robert Irwin, Dan Flavin, and John Chamberlain. Judd was born in 1928 and died in 1994.