Dia: Beacon was a much needed escape from the city. I think we all were missing the green space and someone commented on how it was the first time they had heard birds chirping instead of sirens wailing, which I hadn’t even realized. Taking the train out there was great, the hills and sky were spectacular and made it feel like we were home again.
The space was amazing and really lent itself to the large installations and exhibits that were on view. I particularly responded to the work of Robert Irwin. His use of light and scrims in the installation titled Excursus: Homage to the Square^3 was really fun to walk around and gave me ideas about work that I want to produce. I see his work as an abstraction or deconstruction of the essential elements of photography being light, contrast, and framing and I want to explore these elements in a similar manner. It also continues the theme of me responding to 3-D work more so than 2-D, so that has to be significant. I guess I need to start sculpting or something.
-Beaudry Allen