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This exhibition of the late Dan Flavin's work includes Flavin's first piece executed entirely in fluorescent light, diagonal of May 23, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), 1963. [pictured above] Also on view are Flavin's icon series, untitled, 1970, and the site-specific work commissioned by Dia in 1996 that stretches from the first floor to the roof through Dia's stairwells, and consists of blue and green fluorescent light.
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| Checklist of Works |
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1. icon I (the heart)(to the light of Sean McGovern which blesses everyone), 1961-62. Oil on gesso on masonite and pine, red fluorescent light. 25 1/8 x 25 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches, excluding lamp and fixture. Estate of Dan Flavin.
2. icon II (the mystery)(to John Reeves), 1961. Oil on acrylic masonite and pine, porcelain receptacle, pull chain, amber-colored fire logs, vacuum incandescent bulb. 25 1/8 x 25 1/8 x 4 5/8 inches, excluding bulb and fixture.
Estate of Dan Flavin.
3. icon III, 1962.
Painted wood box, red light bulb, red fluorescent light. 25 1/8 x 25 1/8 x 6 inches, excluding bulb and fixture.
Collection Donald Judd Estate.
4. icon V (Coran's Broadway Flesh), 1962. Oil on masonite, porcelain receptacles, pull chains, clear incandescent "candle" bulbs. 31 5/8 x 31 5/8 x 9 7/8 inches, excluding bulb and fixture.
Private Collection.
5. icon VI (Ireland dying)(to Louis Sullivan), 1962-63. Oil on masonite, painted steel receptacle, glass cap, red incandescent bulb, socket disc flasher. 25 1/8 x 25 1/8 x 10 3/8 inches, excluding bulb and fixture. Collection Donald
Judd Estate.
6. icon VII (via crucis), 1962-64.
Mars Black Liquitex on masonite, daylight fluorescent light. 25 1/8 x 25 1/8 x 10 1/8 inches, excluding bulb and
fixture. Collection of the Modern
Art Museum of Fort Worth, Gift of Barbara Rose, New York.
7. icon VIII (the dead niggers icon)(to Blind Lemon Jefferson), 1962/63. Oil
on masonite, porcelain receptacles, pull chains, red incandescent bulbs, socket disc flashers. 25 1/8 x 25 1/8 x 10 7/16 inches, excluding bulb and fixture. Private Collection.
8. the diagonal of May 23, 1963 (to Constantin Brancusi), 1963. Yellow fluorescent light. 8 feet long. Collection Dia Center for the Arts, Gift of the artist.
9. unitled, 1970. Blue and red fluorescent light. 97 1/2 inches x vaiable length x 3 3/4 inches.
10. untitled, 1996. Blue and green fluorescent light. Site-specific installation in a pair of staircases. Collection Dia Center for the Arts. Gift of Nancy Brown Wellin in memory of the friendship between Alice and George R. Brown and John and Dominique de Menil.
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Flavin, Dan. "'...in daylight or cool white': an autobiographical sketch," Artforum 4, no. 4 (December 1965), pp. 21-24.
corners, barriers, and corridors in
fluorescent light from Dan Flavin.
Saint Louis: The Saint Louis Art Museum, 1973. Texts by Dan Flavin and Emily
S. Rauh.
Dan Flavin. Installationen in
fluoreszierendem Licht 1989-1993.
Frankfurt am Main: Städtische Galerie
im Städel, 1993. Texts by Beatrice von Bismarck, Dan Flavin, and Klaus Gallwitz.
Dan Flavin. Munich: Kunstbau Lenbachhaus, 1994. Texts by Dan
Flavin, Helmut Friedel, Uwe Kiessler, Christian Ude, and Ulrich Wilmes.
Dan Flavin: drawings, diagrams, and prints 1972-1975, and installations in
fluorescent light 1972-1975. Fort Worth: The Fort Worth Art Museum, 1976.
Texts by Jay Belloli, Dan Flavin, and Emily S. Rauh.
Dan Flavin: fluorescent light etc. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada for the Queen's Printer, 1969. Texts by Mel Bochner, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Brydon Smith.
Dan Flavin: three installations
in fluorescent light. Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz-Museum and the Kunsthalle Cologne, 1973-74. Texts by Dan Flavin
and Manfred Schneckenburger.
"monuments" for V. Tatlin from Dan Flavin, 1964-1982. Chicago: Donald Young Gallery for The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in
collaboration with Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, 1989. Text by Dan Flavin.
Zeichnungen, Diagramme, Druckgraphik 1972-1975 und zwei Installationen in fluoreszierendem Licht von Dan Flavin; Fnf Installationen in fluoreszierendem Licht von Dan Flavin. Basel: Kunstmuseum Basel and Kunsthalle Basel, 1975. Texts by Carlo Huber, Donald Judd, and Franz Meyer.
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| Biography |
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Dan Flavin was born in 1933 in New York City, where he later studied art history at the New School for Social Research. From 1963, he exhibited nationally and internationally. In 1983 Dia Center for the Arts opened the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton,
New York, a permanent exhibition of his works, designed by the artist in a converted firehouse. It is maintained by Dia and
open to the public each summer. In 1992 Flavin created a monumental installation for the reopening of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Flavin died on November 29, 1996.
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| Funding |
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Support for this exhbition has been provided by Calvin Klein, Inc., and the members of the Dia Art Council.
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