In 2005 my Danish dealer, Sam Jedig asked me to put together an exhibition of fellow Americans. The artists that came to mind were founders or advocates of Minimal and Conceptual Art — Anastasi, Andre, Barry, Hafif, Highstein, Kretschmer, LeWitt, Nonas, Wagner, and myself. All of us live in New York City and have known each other for decades.
In the fall of 2007 I mentioned the group to Bjšrn Ressle, my New York gallerist. He liked the dynamic and asked whether the first venue might be his own gallery. As the concept developed it became ONE — one work made from a single material by each artist executed directly on the walls, floor and windows of the gallery. Selections of the works were made in early 2007, a few months before Sol LeWitt died. Each of us including Björn Ressle had known Sol well and deeply mourned his absence. When the exhibition opened in December of that year it was dedicated to him. I had the great honor of executing Sol’s 1972 work with these instructions, “A not straight line from the left side to the right, drawn at a convenient height.” One reviewer commented that it read like an abstract, posthumous signature.
ONE More evolved from the earlier exhibition, though with the constraint of a single material lifted. Four more artists were added to the original ten: Lawrence Anastasi, Janet Passehl, Cordy Ryman and Robert Ryman. Each artist was asked to contribute two works, selected for meaningful pairings with the overriding intention to incite conversation amongst the whole.
The additional group also knew Sol LeWitt well; ONE More is dedicated to him.
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