FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW WORK BY GALLERY ARTISTS
Opening Saturday, May 4, 2002

Donald Young Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by some of our most established and renowned artists including Richard Serra, Ulrich Rückriem, Martin Puryear, Bruce Nauman, Robert Mangold, Sol LeWitt, Gary Hill and Tony Cragg.

Included in this exhibition are two works by Richard Serra, his post-and-lintel forged steel structure entitled T-Junction, 1999, that transverses and segments the gallery space and a new paint-stick on paper entitled, Bellamy, 2001, which investigates the way light and dark translate into mass and void on a two-dimensional surface.

Ulrich Rückriem’s new six and one-half feet high black granite cornerstone sculpture explores the contrast between the rawness of the material and the finished surfaces of the stonemason.

Tony Cragg’s well-known steel Fruit Bottles, 1989, which are based on real juice bottles, “make strange” these common objects through his choice of material and scale.

A new 12 h. x 40 foot wall drawing by Sol LeWitt continues his exploration into the relationship between color and composition.

A new work by Robert Mangold from his “Curled Figure Paintings” combines the drawn-line, painted surface and shape of the canvas.

Martin Puryear’s twelve-foot high pine, cypress and ash sculpture Untitled, 1997-2001, uses a framework to evoke his re-occurring theme of metamorphosis and transformation.

Gary Hill’s Liminal Object #6 & #7 are part of an open-ended series of works, each composed of a stripped-down black and white monitor mounted on a metal stand. As in the other works in the Liminal Objects series, a pair of computer-generated animated images are coupled in continuous, interactive motion.

Bruce Nauman’s new single-channel video, Office Edit I (Fat Chance John Cage), 2001, is a 54 minute-long straight recording of his empty studio office at night which relates to the seven-channel studio version now on view at the Dia Center, New York.