Andrea Walsh

Conserve. Preserve. Restore. Judd Foundation celebrated a major milestone this year with the opening of Donald Judd’s Architecture Office in Marfa, Texas—restored and rebuilt. The Architecture Office presents a place to engage with the rigor of Judd’s thinking, to pursue ideas of how to make space better, and to recognize what it means to build a world. Importantly, it is a place to open one’s thinking and create dialogue with others. Thank you to Rainer and Flavin and the staff and board of Judd Foundation. Thank you to Schaum Architects, Method Building Company, and the entire project team. The building is beautiful. And thank you to everyone who engages with the ideas of Judd every day. Our doors are always open. @juddfoundation : The work of Judd Foundation evolves each year—Donald Judd’s spaces continue to inspire new audiences and remain integral to understanding his ideas. Our priority is, as always, to ensure the spaces remain as he intended: “I ask the trustees,” he wrote, “to make every effort to preserve as a unity my works so that such works may serve as a basis for study and appreciation by scholars and the general public.” Now that the restoration of the Architecture Office is complete, we are excited to look ahead. In the next year we have multiple conservation and restoration projects in New York and Marfa—as Judd’s artwork and architecture age, this task grows and becomes more urgent. We will conserve the blue stack at the Block, make aesthetic and preservation upgrades to the Architecture Studio, and begin the restoration of the adobe wall at the Block. We rely on your support to realize the full scope of the care of his art and buildings. Through a gift to the Donald Judd Spaces Fund, you can directly support the preservation of his permanently installed spaces and ensure these remain a resource for all. “Everyone wants to treat art and architecture as a matter of taste, when I want to consider it as a matter of knowledge.” Visit @juddfoundation link in bio. #DonaldJudd #JuddFoundation Image: Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas. 1993. Photo © Laura Wilson. Text: Donald Judd, Note from ‘15 July 1987,’ in ‘Donald Judd Writings,’ 472.

If you have been to Marfa or New York this year, or ever, Judd Foundation has created a new way to support our spaces. And if you love Donald Judd’s work—art, writing, architecture, furniture—as much as I do, consider supporting our work through a donation of any size. Learn more about the new Donald Judd Spaces Fund. @juddfoundation : Space is made by what exists in it or is placed in it. The distance between two rocks on a plane creates space between them. Donald Judd developed a rare sensitivity and comprehension of three-dimensional space and expressed it in his art and architecture. His proclivity to think in variations and simple mathematical proportions allowed him to explore possibilities within a form and to reflect those variations to the world. A decisive use of symmetry, asymmetry, and color, together with clear construction and a respect for materials, grounds the work and its relationship to space. It makes sense that an artist who explored space through permanent installation would charge his foundation to maintain his physical legacy. This is our challenge. Visit the link in @juddfoundation bio. Our work to continue Judd’s work is part of a much larger community, so thank you, gracias, danke, merci, grazie mille. ♥️ #DonaldJudd #JuddFoundation

Out. Of. Office. Donald Judd’s library in Marfa is one of the best rooms in the world. It holds an abundance of everything—books, furniture, and, my favorite, rocks. While all of his spaces within Judd Foundation, and the Chinati Foundation, provide a counterexample to institutional art settings, the Marfa library is a treasure. The books reflect the wide-range of his interests: art, architecture, astronomy, anthropology, horticulture, literature, and philosophy to name some of the subjects found in the more than thirteen thousand volumes. According to Judd: “It’s about everything.” Over our break, browse the Donald Judd Library on the Judd Foundation website as just one of the major research projects we completed this year. Entries for each title link to WorldCat so you can find a copy near you. Link in bio. See you in Texas and New York next year. Stay warm, preferably with a book. #DonaldJudd #JuddFoundation Image: Library shelves at La Mansana de Chinati/The Block, Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Photo Justin Chung © Judd Foundation.

Real space, real art, and real distance. All things Donald Judd all of the time. As always, our thanks for believing in ideas and culture. @juddfoundation : We take care of art and buildings. We take care of archives and land. This makes culture. The three ranch houses in the desert are a part of that culture. While you might not be able to visit the ranch houses yet, you can visit the buildings and art in Marfa and 101 Spring Street in New York, see the art in exhibitions, and research the archives.   To preserve art, buildings, and even information, it takes your support and our work.   One day, if we get enough support, you can visit the further ranch houses—their real space, real art, and real distance.   Visit the link in @juddfoundation bio to make a gift. See you at the ranch. #DonaldJudd #JuddFoundation Image: Donald Judd in his Architecture Studio, Marfa, Texas, 1993. Photo © Laura Wilson. Donald Judd Art © Judd Foundation/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

If there are two things people know about me they are likely that I love books and I love working for Judd Foundation. That we get to make books about Donald Judd is very special.   Extremely happy to share that the second edition of ‘Donald Judd Spaces’ is now out in the world, just before its official publication date. Designed by @remake_design with @rainerjudd and @flavinjudd , it remains the only survey of its kind on Judd’s spaces in New York and Texas. This edition has been beautifully printed, and hand-wrapped in pergamin paper, by Verona Libri in Italy.   It would not have been possible without all of our creative friends who once again shared their work with us, and a few new additions for this edition. I have been lucky enough to have been behind the scenes for many of the contemporary photographs at 101 Spring Street, in our downtown Marfa spaces, and out at the AdeC ranch. They have always been fun, usually really hot under the big Texas sky, and sometimes with an anthill under the tripod or a flat tire on the way back to town. Thank you @a_gaut , @alexmarksphoto , @a.m.a.recherche , @annabelledhuart , @brianwferry , @businessnormal , @cb , @charlierubin , @chuck4x5 , @florian_holzherr , @jasonschmidtstudio , @justinchung , @mahaney_mark , @martienmulder , @matthewmillmanphoto , @ryanlowry , @sans.murs , @wavertree200 , @wichmann100 , @william.jess.laird + more. Our extraordinary production team @anna_m_drozda , @caitlincollinsmurray , @semla_whelan + more. And of course @elliemeyer123 , @griggs.richard , @randysanchez400m , @rico.roman.940 .   We hope you will come join us for a talk with Rainer and Flavin with @mahfuzsultan in New York next month. In the meantime, you can find ‘Spaces’ in the Judd Foundation Bookshop (link in bio), in either location of our offices, and at your local bookstore. Message me if you need help locating a copy.   #DonaldJudd #DonaldJuddSpaces Photo courtesy Mike Dyer / Remake Design

OOO hygge energy courtesy Donald Judd and 101 Spring Street in 1985. This photograph is the lead in ‘Donald Judd Writings’ (2016), which is one of three books Judd Foundation has published along with ‘Donald Judd Interviews’ (2019) and ‘Donald Judd Spaces’ (2020), if you need some holiday reading. If you prefer reading online, the newly expanded ‘Donald Judd Chronology’ is now available on our website with previously unpublished photographs, link in bio. Plus ‘David Novros – Paintings’ has been extended and will be by appointment through January 28, 2023. See you in the new year. #DonaldJudd #JuddFoundation Image: Donald Judd, 2nd Floor, 101 Spring Street, New York, 1985. Photo Doris Lehni-Quarella © Antonio Monaci.

@juddfoundation : Don was an empiricist, a stout believer in hard facts, but also in ideas. He thought that power should be held by as many people as possible and that democracies should be direct. That art is the production of new things and knowledge, and that it is up to the individual artist and citizen to examine their culture and make something they feel reflects the truth.  At Judd Foundation, we sustain Don’s reflection of truth—his creation of culture—through the preservation of his art, his buildings, and his ideas. Don believed that you have to make what you want because nobody else is going to do it for you. To make something, anything, takes time and energy, and we know that preserving what has been built takes time and energy, too.  We invite you to support Judd Foundation and Don’s mission—to help us share the culture one person made, and to inspire others to make the culture they believe in. Visit @juddfoundation link in bio to make a gift. As always, thank you from our team at Judd. Come visit us soon. #DonaldJudd #JuddFoundation Image: Donald Judd, La Mansana de Chinati/The Block, Marfa, Texas, 1982. Photo Jamie Dearing © Judd Foundation. Donald Judd Art © Judd Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Beyond excited for more David Novros at 101 Spring Street. @juddfoundation is pleased to present ‘David Novros – Paintings’ on the ground floor of 101 Spring Street. The exhibition opens to the public on Friday, September 30. The two works in the exhibition, ‘Boathouse’ (2016) and ‘Untitled (Graham Studio Mural II)’ (2006), are large, polychromatic paintings, described by the artist as portable murals. Both are related to site-specific pieces, no longer extant. This exhibition presents new opportunities for considering Novros’s work within the context of his permanent fresco at 101 Spring Street, and for seeing a new the importance of place and permanence to his work more broadly. In conjunction with the exhibition, Judd Foundation will host a reading by poet and translator Bill Porter (Red Pine) and a conversation between David Novros; Flavin Judd, Artistic Director of Judd Foundation; and Dr. Matt L. Levy, Associate Professor of Art History, Music, Theatre, and Visual Arts program at Penn State Behrend. Learn more about the exhibition on the Judd Foundation website. ‘David Novros – Paintings’ is made possible with support from Paula Cooper Gallery. #DavidNovros #101SpringStreet #JuddFoundation Image: David Novros, Boathouse, 2016, oil and murano on canvas, 7 panels, overall dimensions approximately 11 x 20 feet. Art © 2022 David Novros / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

Meg Webster ‘Two Walls 1984/2022’ is now on view at Judd Foundation. It has been an incredible experience working with Meg and the Paula Cooper Gallery team to again realize these works almost forty years after they were first made at 101 Spring Street. As stated by Meg “I want you to love more. I want you to care more…It’s about caring for the structure of nature.” The works, ‘Soft Broch' (1984/2022) and 'Long Gates' (1984/2022), were first made in 1983, not long after a nuclear war scare with Russia in fall of that year, and now made again in 2022 at a time of climate crisis and on-going human-caused mass extinction. With these grave challenges in mind, the works focus the viewer’s attention on the symbiosis between humans and the natural world. Come by 101 Spring Street for open hours (free and no booking necessary) on Thursdays, Fridays, and Saturdays through May 21. #MegWebster Image: Installation view, Meg Webster, 'Two Walls 1984/2022,' 101 Spring Street, Judd Foundation, New York, March 25–May 21, 2022; 'Soft Broch,' 1984/2022, hay, 12 x 12 x 12 feet (365.8 x 365.8 x 365.8 cm). Photo Timothy Doyon © Judd Foundation. © Meg Webster. Courtesy Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.

We made some new films so you can visit our spaces, from your phone. Watch the beautiful film portraits by @rainerjudd and our friend @josephcashiola . Another labor of love from the Judd team. + thank you Bloomberg Connects and Bloomberg Philanthropies. — @juddfoundation : Visit Judd Foundation spaces in New York and Texas through new films on our Bloomberg Connects guide.   Created by Rainer Judd with Joseph Cashiola, and with Darren Lew cinematography in New York, the film portraits feature archival audio of Donald Judd discussing his installation of the spaces and his work. New films of Judd’s working spaces in Marfa—including his Art Studio, Architecture Studio and Office, Ranch Office, and the Cobb House, Whyte Building, and Gatehouse—are now available on the guide.     Explore these resources and more by downloading our guide on your mobile device. Link in bio.

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Film: Architecture Studio, Judd Foundation, Marfa, Texas. Film © Judd Foundation. 

Audio: Excerpt of a lecture by Donald Judd at the University of Texas at Austin, March 9, 1992. Courtesy University of Texas Libraries at the University of Texas at Austin.

@juddfoundation is pleased to present 'Two Walls 1984/2022,' an exhibition of two works by Meg Webster on the ground floor of 101 Spring Street in New York. For 'Two Walls 1984/2022,’ Webster has remade two works which comprised her solo exhibition of the same title at 101 Spring Street in 1984. The exhibition opens to the public on Friday, March 25. Webster has long been guided by an environmentalist impulse to celebrate and preserve the natural world. She produces both indoor sculptures made of salt, earth, sand, and other natural materials, and outdoor installations designed to enhance the community’s appreciation for and understanding of the earth’s ecosystem. The two works 'Soft Broch' (1984/2022) and 'Long Gates' (1984/2022) are made from earthen materials, hay and rammed earth, respectively. Based on the simple geometry of a square and a circle, each work is an enterable form, a square in rammed earth and a circle in hay, which function as meeting places. 'Two Walls 1984/2022' is made possible with support from Agnes Gund and Paula Cooper Gallery. #MegWebster #101SpringStreet #JuddFoundation Image: Installation view, Meg Webster, 'Two Walls,' 101 Spring Street, New York, January 11–February 18, 1984. Photo © Meg Webster. Art © Meg Webster.

@juddfoundation : This past week marked the closure of ‘inbetweenness,’ an exhibition of two works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Judd Foundation in New York. We are grateful to the Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation and Andrea Rosen, and to the writers who contributed texts for the exhibition including Josh T Franco, Raquel Gutiérrez, Grant Leuning, Caitlin Murray, and Eileen Myles. The publication of exhibition essays is available to download on our website and printed copies will remain available at 101 Spring Street for the next month. We are also grateful to the Leslie-Lohman Museum for their partnership in presenting a talk in tandem with the exhibition 'OMNISCIENT' which included curator Avram Finkelstein, and artists Camilo Godoy and Omar Mismar. A recording of their conversation is available on our website. Curated by Flavin Judd ‘inbetweenness’ continues the practice begun by Donald Judd of using the ground floor of 101 Spring Street as a public exhibition space. + thank you William Laird for capturing the feeling of the works and exhibition in this space. ++ news to our 2022 exhibitions very soon. 
#FelixGonzalezTorres #FelixGonzalezTorresFoundation Video: Felix Gonzalez-Torres, “Untitled” (Loverboy), 1989, ‘inbetweenness,’ October 22–January 22, 2021, 101 Spring Street, Judd Foundation, New York. Video © William Laird. Art © 2002-2021 Felix Gonzalez-Torres Foundation.