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The artist, whose work often makes use of grids, series, and cubic forms, remarked that this shoddily mortared wall, visible from his window at home, \"changes each time I see it and has a constant beauty no matter when seen.\" Each photograph in the series, viewed alone, presents a bald, forbidding image of stasis. But when the images are juxtaposed (even, as here, so few as two at a time), the banal plainness of the subject cues the viewer to focus on the only variable in sight: light itself. In this pairing, the wall is seen at left in a raking light that emphasizes small and large-scale irregularities in its surface, and on the right in a flat glare that draws a hard shadow around nearly every brick. <I>Brick Wall</I> was executed the year before LeWitt’s mid-career retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art. He conceived the series as a book to sell at a New York shop he cofounded, Printed Matter, where the multiples and publications of Conceptual artists found a more congenial venue than in traditional art galleries. </P></SPAN>","remarks":null}],"datebegin":1977,"sortnumber":"1995  292 a    b","published_date":"2026-04-15 02:01:07.736169","objectid":48741,"dimensions":"27.2 × 43.1 cm (10 11/16 × 16 15/16 in.)\r\nmount: 51 × 66 cm (20 1/16 × 26 in.)\r\nmat: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)\r\nframe: 55.9 × 71.1 cm (22 × 28 in.)","on_view":true}