BiographyDonald Judd was an American artist who became the central theorist and practitioner of Minimalism, rejecting the illusionism of painting in favor of three-dimensional objects made with industrial materials like aluminum, Plexiglas, and steel. His modular stacks and progressions emphasized specific material properties and spatial relationships, articulated in his influential 1965 essay "Specific Objects." He transformed the remote town of Marfa, Texas, into a permanent installation site for large-scale works, now overseen by the Chinati Foundation.
