David Zwirner presented two new exhibitions at two of its galleries on February 28, 2024. A solo exhibition by American artist John McCracken opens at the gallery’s 616 North Western Avenue location in LA. While a group exhibition by Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, On Kawara, Sol LeWitt, Palermo, Robert Ryman, Fred Sandback, as well as Richard Serra will debut at the gallery’s 612 North Western Avenue location. Both shows run through March 30, 2024.
John McCracken

John McCracken near his studio in New Mexico, 1996. © The Estate of John McCracken
The artist’s geometric sculptural forms exemplify the distinctly West Coast take on the art coming out of New York during this period. Meticulously crafted from plywood coated with fiberglass and layers of pigmented polyester resin. Each was taken by hand to a high polish. These works embody McCracken’s long-standing investigation of surface, form, color, and the transcendent potential of minimalist abstraction.
McCracken developed his early sculptural work while studying painting at the California College of Arts and Crafts in Oakland in the late 1950s and early 1960s. While experimenting with increasingly three-dimensional canvases, the artist began to create objects made with industrial materials, including plywood, sprayed lacquer, and pigmented resin, resulting in the highly reflective, smooth surfaces for which he would become known. As he described his practice, “In distilling my ideas I was doing something analogous to making poetry—trying, in a way, to say the most with the least.”
Group Exhibition
This show features artists from the gallery’s program from the avant-garde New York art scene of the 1960s and 1970s. This presentation features a selection of abstract and non-representational works. These artworks radically reconfigured the possibilities of their mediums in distinct ways. These creatives were highly influential to each other as well as their peers in New York and around the world. The artists established minimal, post-minimal, abstract, and conceptual vocabularies whose echoes still permeate the art world today.
Both Shows remain on view: February 28, 2024 – March 30, 2024
What: Two Exhibitions, Two locations
Where: David Zwirner, 616, N. Western Ave., AND 612 N. Western Ave., LA, 90004
When: Running through March 30, 2024
Website: https://www.davidzwirner.com/