Image series 17/24: "Nancy Holt. Views through Tubes" In her best-known work "Sun Tunnels", four concrete tubes are arranged in a cross shape in the Great Basin Desert in Utah and ... https://prometheus-bildarchiv.de/en/series/2024/17/index

Licht, Schatten, Formen und wechselnde Blickwinkel sind prägende Elemente in den Arbeiten der US-amerikanischen Landart-, Konzept- und Videokünstlerin Nancy Holt. ... https://prometheus-bildarchiv.de/de/series/2024/17/index #NancyHolt #landart #BildseriederWoche

Nancy Holt's artwork 'Starfire' (1986)
🔗 https://HoltSmithsonFoundation.org/news/nancy-holt-works-ecstatic-land-ballroom-marfa

#NancyHolt (1938-2014) installation currently on view at https://BallroomMarfa.org, TX, US.
"… The work consists of eight small firepits set into the ground in the formation of the #BigDipper & #NorthStar. The firepits are lit at night, bringing the fire of the night's sky down to the earth …"

🔗 https://Wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Holt
#EarthArt #ConceptualArt #Installation #Cosmology #Time & #Timelessness ∘‧

Lucy Lippard and Lisa Le Feuvre discuss the legacy of Nancy Holt — an artist who emphatically pointed away from herself and into the wider world.

#Art #LandArt #NancyHolt

https://hyperallergic.com/813560/the-celestial-alignments-of-nancy-holt/

https://womeninlighting.com/site/page/collected-light-book

There's never too many books about #LightArt and this one seems especially interesting! #WomenLightArtists showcases the usual suspects like #YayoiKusama, #NancyHolt and #JennyHolzer, but also a few not-yet-household names.

I've just ordered, will be reporting later!

"I feel that the need to look at the #sky—at the #moon and the #stars—is very basic, and it is inside all of us. So, when I say my work is an exteriorization of my own inner reality, I mean I am giving back to people through art what they already have in them.”
9 anos beyond #NancyHolt

📷 Robert Smithson / #SunTunnels by Nancy Holt

#art #artist #sculpture #space #photography #portrait