Friday, October 26
6:30pm
101 Spring Street
New York, NY

A public talk by art historian Kirsten Swenson on Donald Judd’s early paintings, including the works on view in the exhibition Donald Judd: Paintings 1960-1961.

Kirsten Swenson is the author of Irrational Judgments: Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York (Yale University Press, 2015) and co-editor and author of Critical Landscapes: Art, Space, Politics (University of California Press, 2015). She is currently writing a book entitled Public Works: Art, Remediation, and Urban Renewal on the designed environments of Agnes Denes, Nancy Holt, Mary Miss, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. Her writings on 20th century and contemporary art have appeared in numerous journals, edited volumes and exhibition catalogs, including Donald Judd: Paintings (Prestel, 2018). Kirsten is Associate Professor of Art History at the University of Massachusetts, Lowell.