Dia:Beacon

What a unique gallery Beacon is.  The large, expansive layout allowed for conceptual art of massive proportion, like Richard Serra's metal walls.  Rising maybe 20 feet, these slabs of dark metal curve into circular and spiral forms, leaving just enough room for viewers to walk into the dynamic space that he has created.  The walls fluctuate between leaning in over one's head and expanding into wide openings, making it impossible to walk through in any passive way.  In the center one finds another area, empty and devoid of anything but the space and the viewer.  These pieces force the spectator to readjust their normal routine of walking through rectangular spaces, like hallways or alleys, and consider their own size, shape, and movement as they relate to these cold dynamic sculptures.  

The concept of exposing the viewer to themselves through sculpture, is repeated in many of these highly conceptual pieces at the Dia:Beacon.  Although i've personally seen pictures of many of these types of works, they really only came alive for me in the physical experience of confronting them, and interacting in person.  Go to this gallery.