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Established in 1983 as a permanent installation of Flavin’s work, this renovated firehouse holds a permanent installation of nine works in fluorescent light created by the artist between 1963 and 1981, and a gallery for changing exhibitions. Planned by the artist for the second-floor gallery of the space, the permanent installation traces Flavin’s practice from 1963—when he decided to work solely with standard fluorescent fixtures and tubes—to 1983, when the presentation was realized. In creating this exhibition, Flavin conceived of the sculptures and the architecture as a single, unified installation. By manipulating the formal, phenomenal, and referential characteristics of light, the installation asks viewers to consider a series of contrasts—between colors, intensities of light, structure and formlessness, the obvious and the mysterious, and the serious and the humorous.
Originally built as a firehouse in 1908, the building operated as a church from 1924 to the mid-1970s, and was renovated under the direction of the artist to evoke the building’s former uses: a newel post in the entrance hall is painted red in memory of the building’s years as a firehouse, and the original church doors have been moved to the entrance of a small exhibition space on the second floor that contains memorabilia, including a neon cross, collected from and about the church.
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The Institute is easily reachable via Long Island Rail Road: Take the Montauk Line to Bridgehampton, New York (2.5-3 hours travel time from Penn Station). Exit the platform and walk east on Maple Lane one-half block to Corwith Avenue. Walk south on Corwith AV 1.5 blocks. The Dan Flavin Art Institute is on the east side of the street just before Main Street. For train schedule information please visit http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/lirr/.
Driving directions from New York City:
Take the Midtown tunnel which feeds directly into the LI Expressway (495)- take the LIE to exit 70... from there take route 111 to 27 (Montauk Hwy) east until you get to Bridgehampton (traffic can be extremely slow on 27, there is no alternate route). You cannot make a left turn onto Corwith from 27, so go left on Butter Lane, the street before Corwith... there is a LIRR sign. Go right on the next street (Maple Lane), past the LIRR station and make the next right onto Corwith. DFAI is on the left, very near the corner.
For more information, please call (212) 989-5566, extension 518.
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| Checklist of Works |
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1. red out of a corner (to Annina), 1963
red fluorescent light
8 feet high
edition 3/3
2. untitled, 1976
pink, blue and green fluorescent light 8 feet high
edition 2/3
3. untitled (to Robert, Joe and
Michael), 1975-81
pink and yellow fluorescent light
installed in a corridor 8 x 8 feet
edition 2/3
4. untitled (to Jan and Ron
Greenberg), 1972-73
yellow and green fluorescent light
installed in a corridor 8 x 8 feet
edition 2/3
5. untitled (in honor of Harold
Joachim) 3, 1977
pink, blue, green, and yellow
fluorescent light
8 feet square across the corner
edition 1/3
6. untitled (to Katharina and Christoph), [from the series to European
couples], 1971
green fluorescent light
8 feet square across the corner
edition 1/5
7. untitled (to Jim Schaeufele) 1, 1972
cool white fluorescent light
9 feet high
installed in the ground floor
stairway landing
edition 1/3
8. untitled (to Jim Schaeufele) 2, 1972
daylight fluorescent light
16 feet high
installed in the mid-floor
stairway landing
edition 1/3
9. untitled (to Jim Schaeufele) 3, 1972
warm white fluorescent light
10 feet high
installed in the second floor
stairway landing
edition 1/3
10. untitled [drawing for icon IV (the pure land) (to David John Flavin [1933-1962])], 1962
pencil and white chalk on paper
5 feet 5 inches square
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