Largest Commissioned Sol LeWitt Scribble Drawing is Completed

BUFFALO, NY.- An ambitious installation of the largest commissioned scribble drawing by American artist Sol LeWitt, a pioneer in the development of Minimalism and Conceptual art in the 1960s and 1970s, has been completed at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery. The stairwell that connects the Gallery’s 1962 Knox Building and 1905 Albright Building, has been dramatically transformed by the work. The drawing, named Wall Drawing #1268: Scribbles: Staircase (AKAG), conceived2006, executed 2010, will remain on view indefinitely. The installation has taken sixteen artists, working seven hours per day, a total of fifty-two days to complete, and its scribble marks of varying density cover more than 2,200 square feet of space. Gallery Director Louis Grachos began discussing the monumental commission with the artist in 2006. Just before the artist’s death in 2007, LeWitt envisioned the work specifically for the Albright-Knox

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