Nancy Holt's Sightline
Graham Foundation, Chicago (USA) - 07.10 - 17.12.2011
Motive Gallery, Amsterdam (Netherlands). 12.03 - 29.04.2011
Press release
The Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts is pleased to present
Nancy Holt: Sightlines, offering an in-depth look at the early projects of this important
American artist whose pioneering work falls at the intersection of art, architecture,
and time-based media.
Since the late 1960s, Nancy Holt has created a far-reaching body of work, including
films, videos, site-specific installations, artist’s books, concrete poetry, and
major sculpture commissions. Nancy Holt: Sightlines, which includes documentation
from more than 40 projects, showcases the artist’s early films, videos, and related
pieces from 1966 to 1980, pivotal works which transform how we perceive landscape
through the use of different observational modes. Featured in the exhibition are
Holt’s film Sun Tunnels (1978), which documents the creation of her well-known site-specific
work of the same name, and Pine Barrens (1975), a meditative documentary about a
notoriously vast, undeveloped region in central New Jersey. Other highlights in the
exhibition include Swamp (1971, in collaboration with Robert Smithson), Locating
#2 (1972), Boomerang (1973, in collaboration with Richard Serra), Points of View
(1974), a four-monitor installation, and Revolve (1977), alongside materials from
early moments in Holt’s career that have been selected from the artist’s archive,
which has only recently become available for exhibition and study.
Exhibition 7 October - 17 December 2011. Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in
the Fine Arts, Madlener House, 4 West Burton Place - Chicago, IL 60610 (USA). Tel.:
312 787 4071. Opening hours : Wed - Sat 11 am - 5 pm.
