New House, Staten Island, New York; Development, Side Views, Bayonne, N.J.

Dan Graham

1966–78 · Chromogenic prints · Photographs

Around 1980, Graham made exhibition prints from his landmark series Homes for America, which he had originally displayed as a slideshow in galleries and museums as well as in a mock-lifestyle article in the winter 1966/67 issue of Arts magazine. The published piece was a mordantly humorous comparison of the industrial sheen, coloring, and serial progressions of Minimalist art with the postwar prefabricated tract housing of subdivisions such as Levittown, New York, and Fair Lawn, New Jersey. In this diptych from the series, Graham juxtaposes the single-family home with a checkerboard-patterned garage door to a row of houses that he refers to affectionately as his "Judd," after its similarity to the modular sculptures made by Donald Judd.

Artist

Dan Graham

Date

1966–78

Medium

Chromogenic prints

Department

Photographs

Credit line

Purchase, Vital Projects Fund Inc. Gift, through Joyce and Robert Menschel, 2012