- Title
- Untitled
- Date Made
- 1966-1967
- Medium
- Acrylic on shaped aluminum
- Dimensions
- Diameter: 60 in. (152.4)
Depth: 4 in. (10.16cm)
- Accession Number
- M.68.34
- Collecting Area
- Modern Art
- Curatorial Notes
Throughout his career, Robert Irwin has been more interested in how we see than what we see—in the perceptual experience of viewing rather than the physical object. Though his discs from the mid-1960s maintain a material presence on the wall, they simultaneously seek to dissolve the perceptual boundaries between architecture, object, light, and shadow. Untitled appears to hover, indistinguishable from its surroundings, hindering the viewer’s ability to define its edges. Instead, it offers a conditional, ephemeral, even immaterial experience.
Exhibition label: Light, Space, Surface: Works from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2021, Carol S. Eliel.
- Selected Bibliography
- Tuchman, Maurice. Ten Years of Contemporary Art Council Acquisitions: Inaugurating The New Contemporary Art Galleries. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1973.
- Govan, Michael and Christine Y. Kim. James Turrell: a Retrospective. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Munich; New York: DelMonico Books/Prestel, 2013.
- Kim, Woollin, Jinmyung Kim, and Songhyuk Yang, eds. Art Across America. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2013.
- Miller, Angela, and Chris McAuliffe, eds. America: Painting a Nation. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013.
- Cateforis, David, Steven Duval, and Shepherd Steiner, editors. Hybrid Practices: Art in Collaboration with Science and Technology in the Long 1960s. Oakland: University of California Press, 2019.
- Eliel, Carol, editor. Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; New York: DelMonico Books, 2021.
- Copyright
- © Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York
