Flavin’s ‘Icons’ at Dia
At the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton
The Dia Art Foundation will open “Dan Flavin: Icons” at the Dan Flavin Art Institute in Bridgehampton today. The works, created from 1961 to 1964, are the artist’s earliest experiments with light. Dia will present five of the eight works he made in the series.
Their titles are dedicated to friends in the way he would later title his mature fluorescent works with humor, irony, and tragedy. The “Icons” will be up through April 2017.