Dan Flavin: Grids

From 1963 until his death in 1996, Dan Flavin created installations using commercially available fluorescent lamps to establish and redefine spatial experience through light and color. He preferred to call his works "situations" rather than installations. The grids, initiated in 1976 and developed from his cornered squares of the late 1960s, represent among his most intense chromatic investigations, composed of equal numbers of vertical and horizontal fixtures in varying color combinations. Positioned in room corners, these constructions simultaneously engage phenomenological and rational concerns central to his practice, projecting blended colors outward toward viewers while illuminating inward into architectural corners.