Sol LeWitt: Irrational Thoughts

Upper Gallery

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“Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely and logically.”
Sol LeWitt

“To be truly objective one cannot rule anything out. All possibilities include all possibilities without pre-judgement or post-judgement.”
Sol LeWitt

“The Conceptual artist Sol LeWitt, who died in [2008], was our Fra Angelico... The ideas in Fra Angelico’s frescos are demanding and unworldly. The ideas in LeWitt’s drawings — in the monumental, abstract annunciations and visitations and sacred conversations at Mass MoCA — are exhilarating and of this moment on earth. So are we talking about Conceptual Art or spiritual art? I’d say both.”
Holland Cotter, The New York Times

Zoom / David Areford on Sol LeWitt

David S. Areford is a professor of art history at the University of Massachusetts Boston. He is the author of Strict Beauty: Sol LeWitt Prints (Yale University Press, 2020), a finalist for the College Art Association's Alfred H. Barr Jr. Award, and editor of Locating Sol LeWitt (Yale University Press, 2021), which was selected as one of the "Best Art Books of 2021" by the editors of ART News and Art in America. Professor Areford is also the author of books and essays on fifteenth-century European printmaking and devotional art. His current book project is tentatively titled Sol LeWitt: To and from Painting.