“I like the color and I like the quality of cadmium red light. And then, also, I thought for a color it had the right value for a three-dimensional object. If you paint something black or any dark color, you can’t tell what its edges are like. If you paint it white, it seems small and purist. And the red, other than a gray of that value, seems to be the only color that really makes an object sharp and defines its contours and angles.”
—Donald Judd
Cologne, Galerie Thomas Zander, Lewis Baltz / Donald Judd, September 4–November 7, 2010 New York, Craig F. Starr Gallery, Donald Judd: Cadmium Red, February 3–March 31, 2012, no. 12, n.p. (illustrated) MACBA Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Buenos Aires, Geometric Obsession: American School 1965–2015, October 16, 2015–March 13, 2016, pp. 161, 188 (illustrated, p. 161) Gagosian, New York, Donald Judd, May 13–July 14, 2023
文學
Brydon Smith, Donald Judd: Catalogue Raisonné of Paintings, Objects and Wood-Blocks 1960–1974, Ottawa, 1975, no. 349, p. 279
Donald Judd came to critical acclaim in the 1960s with his simple, yet revolutionary, three-dimensional floor and wall objects made from new industrial materials, such as anodized aluminum, plywood and Plexiglas, which had no precedent in the visual arts. His oeuvre is characterized by the central constitutive elements of color, material and space. Rejecting the illusionism of painting and seeking an aesthetic freed from metaphorical associations, Judd sought to explore the relationship between art object, viewer and surrounding space with his so-called "specific objects." From the outset of his three-decade-long career, Judd delegated the fabrication to specialized technicians. Though associated with the minimalist movement, Judd did not wish to confine his practice to this categorization.
Inspired by architecture, the artist also designed and produced his own furniture, predominantly in wood, and eventually hired a diverse team of carpenters late in his career.