From the archives of John Gibson Gallery.

Always fascinated by the New Jersey suburbs and highway culture, in 1965 Graham moved from New York to his parents' home in Westfield, New Jersey. Taking inspiration from rock-and-roll odes to suburban anomie, he began using an Instamatic camera to document the the newly minted tract houses along the railroads leading into the city. Focusing primarily on neighborhoods whose seriality and homogeneity were reminiscent of much of the Minimalist art then being produced in New York, Graham's Homes for America took on a number of iterations. One was a slide projection, another an article for Arts Magazine, and another was a series of individual photographs like Two Home Homes whose casual, even banal, style  deliberately forsakes the skills and qualities of high art.

Dan Graham (1942-2022) was an American post-conceptual artist whose work consisted of performance art, installations, video, sculpture, and photography. Very much in the moment, Graham’s work was designed to incite and evoke a relationship between the viewer and an object that challenged in a thoughtful yet playful way a desire to reconsider time, space, and surfaces. Beginning in the late 1960s and into the late 1970s, Graham created largely performance-based pieces incorporating film and the new medium of video for systematic investigations of cybernetics, phenomenology and embodiment. This early filmic work consisted of perceptual, kinetic exercises, that often featured the interaction of a camera with an object or viewer.