23 artists represented at Dia:Beacon

Bernd & Hilla Becher German photographers who have focused heavily on industrial structures and landscapes since 1959.

Robert Irwin American artist, designed Dia:Beacon's outdoor garden which includes flowering hawthorn and crab apple trees.

Hanne Darboven Collection of 1,600 panels of this German native's text and images are mounted from ceiling to floor at Dia:Beacon, tracing 100 years of history.

Louise Bourgeois Artist who weaves feminist and psychological concepts into her sculptures.

Sol LeWitt He was first a graphic designer for architect I.M. Pei. This American minimalist installation artist is also known for his geometrical wall drawings, paintings and sculpture.

Bruce Nauman Artist whose medium includes sculpture, video, film, prints, drawing, audio-video installation and various other objects is known to articulate social ideas.

Gerhard Richter German-born conceptual artist whose ''paintings are statements about ideas for paintings according to an excerpt from the biography of ''Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting.''

Michael Heizer Two cubic forms within ''North, East, South, West'' were inserted in the Sierra Nevada desert in California.

A four-part steel structure with a cone, triangle, and inverted cone and a section with two stacked cubes is embedded in Dia:Beacon.

On Kawara Part of ''Today Series'' is installed at Dia:Beacon, where this Japanese artist's date paintings­an image with only a month, day and year­may evoke memories of certain events.

Agnes Martin Minimalist painter whose series of subtly hued, grid-like paintings are displayed at Dia:Beacon.

Robert Ryman Originally studied music in Nashville, Tenn., and was part of an army reserve band during the Korean War. He made his first paintings in 1953 when he was a guard at the Museum of Modern Art.

Richard Serra This California native used a steel-rolling machine (once used to manufacture World World II battleships) to arc ''Torqued Ellipses.''

Robert Smithson Late New Jersey artist known for landscape art. Works, which incorporate land into the art, are also in the Great Salt Lakes, Utah, region and quarries and are subject to temperature, light, wind and erosion.

Lawrence Weiner American artist articulates art at Dia:Beacon by combining color, text and graphics.

Donald Judd His series of untitled plywood boxes are similar in dimension but contain a minor gap, slope or other variation that may distinguish one from another.

Blinky Palermo ''To the People of New York City'' is his series of paintings that features colors on fabric.

Andy Warhol Commercial illustrator, painter and filmmaker. The late artist is noted for his pop imagery during the 1960s. ''Shadows'' (1978), a multipart, multi-colored painting, is part of Dia:Beacon collection.

Dan Flavin Works with standard fluorescent light fixtures. Dia:Beacon's collection of Flavin's works includes ''monuments'' for V. Tatlin.

John Chamberlain Artist whose series of painted and chromium-plated steel sculptures is part of Dia:Beacon.

Walter De Maria American sculptor's stainless-steel circles and squares are installed in adjacent galleries within Dia:Beacon.

Joseph Beuys Late German-born painter, sketcher and sculptor. Created series of trees ''7000 Oaks,'' which lines the outside of Dia:Chelsea. Explored unity of art with life.

Imi Knoebel German-born installation artist and painter.

Fred Sandback Artist who uses string to define shadow, space and light.