Anodyne
Friday, August 13, 2004
 
A short essay on Minimalist sculptor and printmaker Fred Sandback, who committed suicide in his New York City studio last summer, shortly after I had seen his work for the first time at DIA Beacon. Sandback made 3D geometric shapes from colored yarn, and these huge, almost completely dematerialized pieces were a high point in the intensely happy rainy Sunday I spent at Beacon, a few hours up the Hudson River Valley from NYC.

Nothing prevents you from stepping through or around Sandback's works, which are all edge and no mass, but everyone I watched at DIA treated them very carefully, almost reverentially, as if they were filled with fragile sheets of glass.

- posted by cjb @ 9:28 AM


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