Don Dudley
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Don Dudley was born in Los Angeles, California in 1930 and exhibited widely throughout the United States and Europe in the first part of his career. He had an installation project at the PS1 Contemporary Art Center (1982) and a solo show at the New Museum of Contemporary Art (1984). Group shows included New American Painting at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1974), Corners at Vera List Art Center at MIT, Boston (1979) and Activated Walls at the Queens Museum of Art (1984).
Dudley’s minimalism remains relevant for its striking optical effects and its unfinished exploration of object, surface, and color.In a New York Times review of Dudley’s exhibition critic Ken Johnson wrote that his panels "have the optical punch of Frank Stella’s early paintings… As if made for a Euclidean mystery cult, [Dudley's work] is classically modern and modernistically timeless.”
Dudley’s work represents a historical dialogue between the minimal practices of the East and West Coasts in the 60′s and 70′s in the United States and simultaneously speaks to a new generation of globally-connected artists who are re-examining perfectionist surfaces and minimalist practices.