Fred Sandback at Dia Beacon

Sandback’s yarn installations reduce a sculpture to its simplest form: an outline.

Fred Sandback, yarn installations, Dia Beacon, Beacon, New York

Using subtle methods and an economy of materials, Fred Sandback’s work creates striking perceptual effects in response to the surrounding architecture. Using store-bought spools of colored yarn, Sandback traced the space between different points on floors, ceilings, and walls, creating shapes and constructing the illusion of a pane of glass or shimmering lines of color. Previously on view since the opening of Dia Beacon in 2003, and following a pause of three years, a long-term installation of several of Sandback’s yarn works from Dia’s collection returns to the galleries in winter 2021.

This exhibition at Dia Beacon

Emily Wei Rales, Fred Sandback: Light, Space, Facts, exhibition catalogue (London: Prestel Publishing, 2016).

Edward A. Vazquez, “Fred Sandback’s Perspectives,” Art Journal, volume 71, number 3 (2012), pp. 98–116.

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