Donald Judd’s Untitled, 1968, is a stainless steel and amber Plexiglass, floor to ceiling sculpture built into Erastus Corning Tower in Albany, New York. This stack was created by using ten identical square building blocks with translucent centers. They are evenly spaced apart from top to bottom. The amber plexiglass gives off this orange glow.…
Untitled by Donald Judd from 1968 is made from stainless steel and amber plexiglass boxes. It consists of ten of these boxes mounted separately on a wall, one on top of the other. It would almost appear that these ten boxes are floating above the ground. It is a minimalist piece that seems to glow…
The painting Via Ochre by Kenneth Noland, acrylic on canvas, is composed of horizontal lines that are white, honey yellow, fire yellow, tangerine orange, and light blue. All the lines are different widths. The painting starts with the white and yellow honey lines, then it transitions into the fire yellow and then lastly the tangerine…
Located at the Albany Institute of History and Artis a landscape painting titled Pollepel’s Island (View of the Hudson near Newburgh) by artist George Henry Boughton, 1858. This painting is an oil on canvas. The artist used loose brush strokes and an impasto style. The brush strokes and the texture of the paint is visible to the eye.…
The Empire State Plaza is home to a wide collection of art, including the buildings of the plaza itself. The architecture of the plaza began construction in 1959 and is a true representation of the brutalist style in architecture. This project was mainly under the supervision of Architect Wallace Harrison from the firm Harrison and…
Grand Spectra by Richard Anuszkiewicz is available for viewing at The Empire State Plaza Art Collection in Albany, New York. This piece of art is a has six by six rows of different colored boxes. They are perfectly symmetrical boxes, that have a perfect center point in the middle of the middle four boxes. The…
Return 2 Earth by Alisa Sikelianos-Carter is presently hanging in the Opalka Gallery. Standing tall at 121” x 83 3/4”, this detailed piece is mixed media. It’s composed of Ink, gouache, acrylic, powder pigment, micaceous oxide, copper leaf, gold leaf, silver leaf, liquid gold leaf, interference pigment, glitter, gold coarse mica, and collage on paper.…
Salem #7 I chose to focus on Salem #7 by Antoni Milkowski. This sculpture was created in 1965-1967 out of Cor-Ten steel. This piece is a highly geometric sculpture, made out of six different cubes in a three dimensional cross-like shape. The use of Cor-Ten steel gives it a wethered and industrial look,…
Tecumseh Tecumseh by Edwin Ruda was completed in the year of 1969. His acrylic painting depicts four very strong, even green lines spread horizontally across on the canvas, without actually reaching either end of the canvas. The layers under the vibrant green lines are mixings of purple, blue, red and orange to create a contrasting…
New Morning I, 1973 When you think of pop art this piece by Alvin D. Loving Jr. encaptures all the qualities that come to mind. The colors, shape, materials, and the arrangement all form uniquely to give the piece the pop and snap it needs. Loving was one of the few African-American abstract artists of…