Mel Bochner spent much of his early career in New York, where he fostered close relationships with pioneering Minimalists such as Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, and Robert Smithson. Though his work has been loosely aligned with these peers, Bochner eventually became a progenitor of Conceptual art, focusing on the idea or concept over an artwork’s final material form. Recopy (If we could imagine…), 1969, from which Glenstone’s second exhibition took its title, is an ephemeral piece that challenges the use of traditional art materials. Painted directly onto the wall of the gallery when exhibited, it is erased or painted over at the end of its exhibition. The parameters and ownership of this work are governed by a certificate of authenticity, and Bochner himself installed the work at Glenstone in 2009 using the original template he conceived in 1969.

–From the Glenstone Field Guide