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Artists›Carl Andre

Carl Andre

1935–2024

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Paula Cooper Gallery

2025

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Carl Andre created minimalist floor sculptures and installations organized in strict linear and grid patterns, using industrial materials like metal plates, bricks, and timber. His works range from intimate tabletop arrangements to vast floor-spanning grids that transform architectural space into a sculptural field. Andre treated the floor itself as an active compositional element, making the viewer's physical navigation of the work inseparable from its meaning. His practice established the floor-based installation as a primary form of minimalist inquiry.

Source: Paula Cooper · Trust score: 100% · Updated 2mo ago

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Artworks (63)

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AL Ravine

2002 · Aluminum

5" x 34' 2" x 10 1/2" (12.7 x 1041.4 x 26.7 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Smithereens

1984 · Concrete blocks

Each block 3 5/8 x 7 5/8 x 15 1/2" (9.2 x 19.4 x 39.4 cm), overall 7 5/8 x 13' 5 1/2" x 9' 1 3/8" (19.4 x 410.2 x 277.8 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Cartoon from The Archives: Art Information Centre Peter Van Beveren

1981 · Offset lithograph from an artist's book, offset printed with collage, stamp, gouache, pencil, and ink additions

composition (irreg.): 5 7/16 × 3 11/16" (13.8 × 9.4 cm); page: 11 7/16 × 8 1/4" (29 × 21 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Venus Forge

1980 · Steel and copper

displayed: 5 x 1200 x 15550 mm

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44 Nickel Run

1976 · Nickel bars, 44 units (one missing)

Each 1/2 x 1 3/4 x 8 1/8" (1.3 x 4.4 x 20.6 cm), overall 1/2" x 1 3/4" x 29' 9 1/2" (1.3 x 4.4 x 908.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled from the Rubber Stamp Portfolio

1976 · One from a portfolio of thirteen rubber stamps

composition (irreg.): 1/4 x 5/8" (0.6 x 1.6 cm); sheet: 8 x 8" (20.3 x 20.3 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Rubber Stamp Portfolio: Untitled

1976 · rubber stamp

Sheet: 20.2 x 20.2 cm (7 15/16 x 7 15/16 in.); Image: 0.4 x 1.5 cm (3/16 x 9/16 in.)

Cleveland Museum of Art

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64 Tin Square

1976 · Tin

Single tile: 3/8 × 8 × 8 in., 6.3 lb. (1 × 20.3 × 20.3 cm, 2.9 kg) Overall: 3/8 × 64 × 64 in., 403.2 lb. (1 × 162.6 × 162.6 cm, 182.9 kg)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Cleveland Museum of Art

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Whitney Museum of American Art

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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Phillips Academy

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2025

Group Exhibition Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts

2005