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Dan Flavin

Untitled, ca. 1970

Description

Maker

  • Dan Flavin, 1933-1996, American

Title

Untitled

Year

ca. 1970

Medium

Fluorescent light (blue and red)

Materials/Techniques

Materials

  • fluorescent light

Dimensions

8.3 x 121.9 x 19.1 cm (3 1/4 x 48 x 7 1/2 inches)

Type

  • Sculpture

Credit

Helen M. Danforth Acquisition Fund

Object Number

2003.14

Projects & Publications

Publications

Manual / Issue 4

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Minimalist Works from the Museum's Collection

Exhibition History

Exhibition History

Everyday Things

April 13, 2012 - February 24, 2013

A key figure in the Minimalist art movement of the 1960s and 1970s, Dan Flavin worked exclusively with off-the-shelf fluorescent light tubes to create sculptures that use light, color, and simple geometric configurations to explore the visual and physical experiences of perception. Installed horizontally across the corner of the room, the fluorescent tubes cast a haloed diamond of red and blue light that activates the surrounding gallery space.

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The images on this website can enable discovery and collaboration and support new scholarship, and we encourage their use. This object is in Copyright. This object is Untitled with the accession number of 2003.14. To request high-resolution files or new photography, please send an email to imagerequest@risd.edu and include your name and the object's accession number.

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