This exhibition of sculptures, prints, drawings, and archival documents highlights the art of three leading figures of Minimalism: Dan Flavin, Carl Andre, and Donald Judd. It provides viewers with an occasion to see some of the ways in which their works challenged traditional modes of artistic production and representation during a seminal period in the history of Modern Art.

As a whole, their art favours industrial fabrication, the installation of repetitious forms in space, and abstraction over hand-made craftsmanship, the uniqueness of the art object, and figurative representation. Flavin, Andre, and Judd question the role of the individual artist as creator as well as those conventions of subject matter that dominated North American artistic practices up until the mid-twentieth century.

The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery‘s contemporary exhibition program is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.