American Art Collaborative

In 1977 Donald Judd began to produce wall-mounted boxes with external dimensions of 50 x 100 x 50 centimeters. These “meter boxes,” as they are known, share certain attributes: simple planes of a single metal, butt joints, and the bare minimum of artifice. This box has slightly smaller dimensions than a classic meter box, but it otherwise embodies the type, which often includes, as it does here, a slanted plane of colored Plexiglas. A chief theoretician of Minimalism, Judd did not twist plastic or cast metal or do anything traditionally associated with sculpting. Instead, he created what he called “specific objects,” nonhierarchical, three-dimensional forms that occupy space with declarative immediacy.