Bruce Nauman: Blue and Yellow Corridor : Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, University of California, Davis, CA

Bruce Nauman: Blue and Yellow Corridor is the first realization of an ambitious corridor installation that Nauman, who earned his master’s degree from UC Davis in 1966, initially conceived of in 1970-71. At a time of major international recognition with the first comprehensive retrospective of his work in over 20 years currently on view at Schaulager in Basel, Switzerland, and opening in October 2018 at The Museum of Modern Art and MoMA PS1 in New York, the Manetti Shrem Museum brings Nauman’s work home to the place where he served as teaching assistant to Wayne Thiebaud and befriended William T. Wiley, both of whom were first-generation art faculty on campus. Since the mid-1960s, Nauman has produced a prolific and radically innovative body of work that has expanded the very boundaries of what art can be. More than two decades ago, then-New York Times chief art critic Michael Kimmelman noted, “[Nauman] may be the most influential American artist around.”