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Drawings 1963-1977 by Donald Judd at Maloney Fine Art

LOS ANGELES, CA.- This exhibition will illuminate the process by which Judd’s sculpture was conceived and realized, and provide an overview of the iconic forms for which the artist became best known: ‘stacks’, ‘progressions,’ boxes and various forms which the artist called “Specific Objects.” Emerging in the 1960s in New York, Judd became known as a major exponent of ‘Minimalism,’ a label he strongly rejected, preferring to describe his work as “the simple expression of complex thought.” The artist did not begin to produce mature, wholly distinctive works of art until shortly after his thirty-second birthday, in the summer of 1960. The years between 1963 and 1977 were his most fertile years, a period in which the artist established the formal dictum, which would guide and inform his work throughout his life. In these drawings, one can trace the trajectory of Judd’s thought processes as he found a starting