APPROACHING PAINTING, PART ONE

Presented at:
Hallwalls

Exhibition of 2 dimensional works by Jennifer Bartlett, Bruce Boice, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, and Richard Tuttle.

According to documentation in the Hallwalls archive at the Poetry Collection of University at Buffalo Libraries, the following works were on view:

GREY SQUARE (Bartlett, 1975, enamel, silkscreen on baked enamel steel, 4'3" x 11'10", 13 plates each 12" x 12", courtesy of Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC)

Untitled (BB #91-74) (Boice, 1974, acrylic, pencil on canvas with wood, 28 5/8" x 96.5"courtesy of the Sonnabend Gallery, NYC)

Untitled (BB #99-74) (Boice, 1974, acrylic on cavas with wood, 28 58" x 96.5", courtesy of the Sonnabend Gallery, NYC)

WALL DRAWING FOR HALLWALLS (LeWitt, 1976, pencil, crayon, latex on dry wall, 6'6" x 208", drawn according to LeWitt's instructions by Diane Bertolo, Linda Brooks, Charles Clough, Alan Hayes, Gary Judkins, Pierce Kamke, Robert Longo, Kevin Noble, Joseph Panone, Robert Reslawsky, Cindy Sherman, Michael Zwack)

Untitled (Mangold, 1975, black and yellow pencil on brown paper, 9" x 9", courtesy of John Weber Gallery)

Untitled (Mangold, 1975, black and yellow pencil on blue paper, 9" x 9", courtesy of John Weber Gallery)

Untitled (Mangold, 1975, black and yellow pencil on buff paper, 9" x 9", courtesy of John Weber Gallery)

Untitled (Mangold, 1975, black and yellow pencil on green paper, 9" x 9", courtesy of John Weber Gallery)

THE 11th PAPER OCTAGONAL (Tuttle, 1970, bond paper pasted to dry-wall, 40.5" x 45.5", courtesy of the artist)

Sol LeWitt's instructions for WALL DRAWING FOR HALLWALLS:

"On a yellow wall draw a six inch grid with a hard (9H) pencil. From the four corners of the wall draw straight blue lines (using crayon) to random points on the grid; red lines are drawn from the four sides and white lines from the center. The lines are drawn as follows: blue lines - from each corner one line is drawn toward the center, four lines above the center, four lines below. Red lines - from each side (midpoint) one line is drawn toward the center, four lines above (or right) four lines below (or left). White lines - one line is drawn toward the corners and sides and two lines between each of these lines."

Charles Clough and Larry Lundy installing LeWitt's "Wall Drawing for Hallwalls"

Lewitt's instructions, 1976 (photocopy from personal archives of Charles Clough).

Very Exciting news (July 20, 2015): Sol LeWitt's wall drawing originally created for and executed at Hallwalls back in 1976 was one of just 17 drawings selected for recreation in a 2015 exhibition at the Botín Foundation in Santander, northern Spain. Lewitt's "Wall Drawing for Hallwalls" (one of his earliest) and 16 others were selected from 1,200 created by the artist between 1968 and his death in 2007. The exhibition opened in Spain on 18 July 2015 and will be on view there through January 2016, the 40th anniversary of its original installation in Buffalo. "Many of the works have not been seen since they were made in the 1970s, and it is the first time one of them—'Wall Drawing 7A (1969–2015)'—has been fully installed."

The on-line photo gallery of 17 drawings—during installation and completed—included six shots of the [then] recently reinstalled "Wall Drawing for Hallwalls" (1976), a.k.a., "Wall Drawing 280."

More very exciting news (May 17, 2016): This same Sol LeWitt drawing was installed in one of six galleries of the new SFMOMA representing "Early Minimal Art," along with works by Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, and Frank Stella.

Here is the SFMOMA label text:

Sol LeWitt
American, 1928–2007

Wall Drawing 280 January 1976
Graphite, crayon, and acrylic paint on wall

Drawn by: Andy Brown, Naoki Onodera, Nobuto Suga,
Cassie Thornton, and Jean Pettigrew Whelan

First installed: Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
First drawn by: Diane Bertolo, Linda Brooks, Charles
Clough, Pierce Kamke, Robert Longo, Kevin Noble,
Cindy Sherman, and Michaek [sic] Zwack [and Gary Judkins].

The Doris and Donald Fisher Collection
Acquired by the Fisher family, 1990

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APPROACHING PAINTING, PART ONE

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