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Michael Heizer BIOGRAPHY
Born 1944 Berkeley, California. Known for: Sculptor-earthworks, abstraction.
Michael Heizer, creator of Earth Art, was born in Berkeley, California in 1944. His feeling of land and space may have come from his father, anthropologist Robert Heizer. Heizer briefly attended the... Read full biography
Michael Heizer, creator of Earth Art, was born in Berkeley, California in 1944. His feeling of land and space may have come from his father, anthropologist Robert Heizer. Heizer briefly attended the San Francisco Art Institute from 1963 to 1964, where he studied painting. His work, then reflecting... Read full biography
Michael Heizer, creator of Earth Art, was born in Berkeley, California in 1944. His feeling of land and space may have come from his father, anthropologist Robert Heizer. Heizer briefly attended the San Francisco Art Institute from 1963 to 1964, where he studied painting. His work, then reflecting Minimalist tendencies, included square and rectangular canvases with broad bands of gray and white. By 1966, he had begun to create earthworks on a monumental scale. He has preferred to work in the... Read full biography
Michael Heizer, creator of Earth Art, was born in Berkeley, California in 1944. His feeling of land and space may have come from his father, anthropologist Robert Heizer. Heizer briefly attended the San Francisco Art Institute from 1963 to 1964, where he studied painting. His work, then reflecting Minimalist tendencies, included square and rectangular canvases with broad bands of gray and white. By 1966, he had begun to create earthworks on a monumental scale. He has preferred to work in the open desert areas of the Southwest. The Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, held his first one-person show in 1969. For this show he removed 1,000 tons of earth in a conical shape to create Munich Depression. His "Double Negative,"1969-70, two vast... Read full biography
Michael Heizer, creator of Earth Art, was born in Berkeley, California in 1944. His feeling of land and space may have come from his father, anthropologist Robert Heizer. Heizer briefly attended the San Francisco Art Institute from 1963 to 1964, where he studied painting. His work, then reflecting Minimalist tendencies, included square and rectangular canvases with broad bands of gray and white. By 1966, he had begun to create earthworks on a monumental scale. He has preferred to work in the open desert areas of the Southwest. The Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, held his first one-person show in 1969. For this show he removed 1,000 tons of earth in a conical shape to create Munich Depression. His "Double Negative,"1969-70, two vast incisions opposite one another on the edge of Virgin River Mesa, Nevada, displaced 240,000 tons of earth. Since most Earth art... Read full biography
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Michael Heizer, creator of Earth Art, was born in Berkeley, California in 1944. His feeling of land and space may have come from his father, anthropologist Robert Heizer.
Heizer briefly attended the San Francisco Art Institute from 1963 to 1964, where he studied painting. His work, then reflecting Minimalist tendencies, included square and rectangular canvases with broad bands of gray and white.
By 1966, he had begun to create earthworks on a monumental scale. He has preferred to work in the open desert areas of the Southwest.
The Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, held his first one-person show in 1969. For this show he removed 1,000 tons of earth in a conical shape to create Munich Depression.
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