Description:
Artist's Process noted in catalogue: The page was off-set print from an ink-drawn original.
Label Text:
"Grids dominate the vast and varied oeuvre of Sol LeWitt, one of the leading practitioners of the conceptual art movement that emerged in the 1960s... According to Christina Olsen, the grid's 'simplicity and logic offered a structure through which precise, serial variations could be played out,' acting as a generative matrix for much of LeWitt's work. Its possibilities for seemingly endless permutations may explain why LeWitt remained fascinated with the grid for nearly five decades, until his death in 2007." – Cindy Hwang
Born in Hartford, Connecticut to a family of Jewish immigrants from Russia, LeWitt received his BFA from Syracuse, served in the Korean War, then set up his studio in the old Ashkenazi Jewish settlement on Hester Street in the Lower East Side of New York City in 1953. A graphic designer for I.M. Pei for a year, he discovered the photographs of Eadward Muybridge and worked at MoMA, shortly thereafter he began work on his "structures," beginning a four-decade career as one of the founders of Minimal and Conceptual art.
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