15 January – 26 March 1995
Known for his role in the development of American minimal art in the 1960s, the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford’s 1995 exhibition of Donald Judd’s work features sculpture, furniture, architecture, and prints.
Displaying various pieces from the broad spectrum of Judd’s artistic output, the exhibition includes some of his earliest red wood sculptures as well as some little-known plywood pieces from the mid-1970s. Without imposing a hierarchy between the media employed, Judd’s approach values the distinctions between art, furniture, and architecture. Whilst an interest in simple, geometric forms and clean lines is played out across the body of his work, the artist understood and valued the discrete functions – and subsequent difference in outcomes – of each field he worked in. Furthermore, creating a uniting theme across the diverse work on show, Judd’s use of colour formed a structural element in various pieces, allowing colour to work as a tangible material in its own right.