A day at Dia Beacon!

Maybe you’ve been or maybe you’ve never even heard about Dia let alone their location in Beacon so let me introduce you. Dia Beacon occupies the former Nabisco box-printing factory on the Hudson River. According to its Wiki page Dia Beaon is one of the largest exhibition spaces in the country for modern and contemporary art - wow! That makes sense because the work exhibited takes up a lot of space like this Richard Serra piece below…

Richard Serra

There are individual galleries fashioned specifically for the creations from individual artists like Richard Serra (scroll down), Michael Heizer, Dan Flavin, Louise Bourgeois and more!

When the Land Art artists began they wanted to remove the white wall gallery space from their work, which is why they went outside. Folks like Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, Agnes Denes, Walter Di Maria, James Turrell explored art in relation to nature and the ephemerality of it all.

A part of me always giggles when I see their work indoors but I’m happy to be walking around it out of the rain.

Dan Flavin (this photo does not do his work justice. A real must see in person)

Robert Smithson Gravel Mirrors with Cracks and Dust, 1968

Mario Merz

Robert Smithson

Dan Flavin

Joan Jonas