New York, California. 1942 - 2021
Conceptual art, post minimalism, large letter text paintings, posters
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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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Massachusetts, New York / France. 1926 - 2014
Appropriation art, pop art painting and sculpture
New York, Kansas. 1931 - 2018
Earthworks, installation, minimalism
New York, Illinois. 1930 - 2020
Abstract expressionist, surrealist painting on bowed-frame canvas
New York, Connecticut. Born 1953
Neo-conceptual abstract painting, printmaking, teaching
New York. 1932 - 1990
Abstraction, mod genre, collage
Germany. Born 1940
Minimalism, geometric abstract painting and sculpture
New York, New Mexico. 1923 - 2013
Conceptual art, collage, constructions
California, New York, Florida / France. 1919 - 1996
Surreal-pop imagery, assemblage
New York. Born 1960
Text-based painting, allegory, self-portrait
California. Born 1968
Prismatic, abstract paintings and drawings
New York / Italy. 1909 - 2008
Abstract expressionist and surreal painting
New York, Texas / Switzerland. 1928 - 1994
Minimalist three-dimensional constructions, abstract imagery
California, Michigan. 1954 - 2012
Multi-media installations, comic book scenes, fabric sculpture, videos
New York, California. Born 1945
Monochromatic and grid pattern painting, glass on canvas, light and space
New Jersey, New York. 1954 - 1992
Funk-modernist figurative imagery
Greece, Italy. 1936 - 2017
Found object assemblage, installations, arte povera
New York. 1913 - 2003
Abstract space sculpture
California, Massachusetts. 1946 - 2015
Performance art, installation, graphics, teaching
Texas, Utah, New Jersey. 1938 - 1973
Earthworks, concept-site sketches
New York. 1933 - 1996
Multimedia sculptor, light images
New York / Germany. 1936 - 1970
Modernist imagery, constructions, sculpture
New York. Born 1949
Mod-biotic expression, abstraction, printmaking, collage
New York. 1943 - 2003
Sculptor-yarn geometric
New York, California. 1925 - 1969
Mod figure, abstraction, illustration
New York, Connecticut. Born 1937
Geometric, minimal abstract painting
New York, New Mexico / Greece, India. Born 1941
Sculpture-knot shaped 'environments', fountains, graphics
New Mexico, California. Born 1939
Hard edge painting, glass cube, minimalist sculpture
New York, California. 1943 - 1987
Sculptor-conceptual, collage, minimal
New York / South Africa. Born 1955
Modernist-leaning landscape, charcoal images, video animation, installations
New York, California / Japan. 1904 - 1988
Abstract sculpture, mod mediums
Texas, New York. Born 1957
Torn ornate fabric and text image painting, punk propaganda, conceptual