Michael heizer

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I watched the spectacle of Levitated Mass online as it was moved from a quarry in Riverside to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art over the period of ten nights in 2012. In person, it is a sight to be hold and very easy to photograph multiple times at every angle. The image above depicts one of the two entries which, fortunately, only featured five people (rather than two dozen) photographing themselves as Hercules lifting the 21' high, 340 ton monolith over their heads. I was curious about…

CITY, by Michael Heizer, and crew. Location: Hiko, Nevada (map)

This mystery has been 40 years in the making.

Michael Heizer, born in 1944 in Berkeley, California, is a key figure in the Land Art movement, known for his monumental, site-specific sculptures. Raised in an artistic environment with an anthropologist father and an educator mother, Heizer briefly attended the San Francisco Art Institute before exploring the American West deserts. His early notable work, “Double Negative” (1969-70), involves displacing 240,000 tons of earth to create two massive trenches in the Nevada desert. Another…

Peter Freeman, Inc., founded in 1990, represents leading international artists and the estates of several generations, spanning the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, and specializes in important historical works with particular emphasis on early Pop, Minimal, and Conceptual Art. The gallery presents at least five exhibitions each year of work we believe is especially relevant to the art of our time. Solo exhibitions highlight the rich way in which artists respond to the materials, forces, and…

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Dia Art Foundation is a contemporary arts organization with locations in Beacon, New York, and the American West.

(1944- ) American land artist specializing in large-scale and site-specific sculptures. Working largely outside the confines of the traditional art spaces of galleries and museums, Heizer has redefined sculpture in terms of size, mass, gesture, and process. A pioneer of 20th century Land Art or earthworks movement he is widely recognized for sculptures and environmental…