The Dan Flavin Art Institute opens for 2008 season with permanent installation of nine works in florescent light and special installation
by Imi Knoebel

Established in 1983 as a permanent installation of Flavin's work, this renovated firehouse holds a permanent installation of nine works in fluorescent light created by the artist between 1963 and 1981, and a gallery for changing exhibitions. Planned by the artist for the second-floor gallery of the space, the permanent installation traces Flavin's practice from 1963-when he decided to work solely with standard fluorescent fixtures and tubes-to 1983, when the presentation was realized. In creating this exhibition, Flavin conceived of the sculptures and the architecture as a single, unified installation. By manipulating the formal, phenomenal, and referential characteristics of light, the installation asks viewers to consider a series of contrasts-between colors, intensities of light, structure and formlessness, the obvious and the mysterious, and the serious and the humorous.

"Imi Knoebel, Knife Cuts", is the latest in a series of temporary exhibitions at the Dan Flavin Art Institute that has included works by Louise Bourgeois (1989), Andy Warhol (1987 and 1992), Fred Sandback (2004-2006), and John Chamberlain (2007). First shown in 1977 at Heiner Friedrich Galerie in Cologne, Imi Knoebel's Untitled, 1977, consists of vibrantly colored paper cut outs in oil and acrylic on paper.

The Institute is easily reachable via Long Island Rail Road: Take the Montauk Line to Bridgehampton, New York (2.5-3 hours travel time from Penn Station). Exit the platform and walk east on Maple Lane one-half block to Corwith Avenue. Walk south on Corwith AV 1.5 blocks. The Dan Flavin Art Institute is on the east side of the street just before Main Street. For train schedule information please visit http://www.mta.nyc.ny.us/lirr/.