“I like the plexiglass because the color is in the plexiglass, right in the material. Of course, metal or plywood are a certain color, but you don’t have big areas of bright color that are in the material except the plexiglass.” –Donald Judd This untitled work by Judd is comprised of six plywood boxes with blue and red plexiglass, materials he first used in the 1960s. As he explained in an interview “I didn’t give up materials, I just add more different ones. So it just grows. I think that the basic thing is often simply because I like the material, the quality of the material, as it is, I start thinking of what I could do with it. A lot of the materials were selected – the metal, the galvanized iron, for example, and plywood, too, before the galvanized iron – for their lightness and ability to define a volume without being massive. Then I could make a fairly large thing that was still light. I wanted to get away from the idea of weight and mass; I was more interested in volume. So plywood is good for that.” It is one of three works by Judd currently on view at Dia Beacon. Visit the Dia Art Foundation website to plan your visit. #NowOnView #DonaldJudd #Judd #Dia Image: Donald Judd, untitled, 1991, Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, New York. Gift of Louise and Leonard Riggio. Photos regram @cristian.mohaded Donald Judd Art © Judd Foundation / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Text: “‘Discussion with Donald Judd,’ Seminar discussion with Angeli Janhsen and students from the Ruhr-Universität Bochum from the exhibition catalogue ‘Donald Judd,’ February 1, 1990” and “Interview with Paul Cabon,” 1987. ‘Donald Judd Interviews’ (Judd Foundation/David Zwirner Books, 2019).