The University of Kansas

Donald Judd

United States, 1928-1994
Stack, 1967
Stainless steel and Plexiglass
Gift of the Friends of the Art Museum and the National Endowment for the Arts, 72.28

Donald Judd’s Stack is similar to minimal works like Red, Black, and Blue in that the work does not refer to the outside world. As Kelly does in painting, Judd investigates the essential characterizes of sculpture. Stack interacts with space in three dimensions. Judd used industrial materials to create repeated forms, which were fabricated in machine shops. He then combined these forms in a unified whole that shown no trace of the artist’s construction process, emotions, or personality. Judd believed that his sculpture reflected the truth in art, reducing what is presented to the viewer to its most minimal or primary structure. The use of non-traditional materials, like Judd’s stainless steel and Plexiglas, is commonplace in contemporary art.