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Show exhibitions FOCUS ON: Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels Nancy Holt is considered to be one of the most significant American artists who worked in the I%Os and 1970s. Her pioneering artworks fall at the intersection of art, architecture, and time-based media, often challenging and transforming our traditional understanding of landscape. Holt's well-known sculpture, Sun Tunnels ( 1973-76), is located in Utah's Great Basin. The four massive structures were designed to respond to their natural surroundings and phenomena, such as aligning with the sun during winter solstice. Wife of the late Robert Smithson and a central figure in the Land art movement, Holt achieved great notoriety for her innovative Sun Tunnels. They communicate her unique aesthetics of perception through a novel use of cylindrical forms, light, and techniques of reflection. See more works by Holt in the retrospective exhibition Nancy Holt: Sightlines, organized by Alena Williams for the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, and on view at the UMFA from October 19, 2012January 20, 20 I3. Major support for the exhibition is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in Fine Arts. » Nancy Holt: Sightlines OPENING CELEBRATION Thursday, October 18 5 pm 6 pm 7 pm University and UMFA members exhibition preview Public artist talk by Nancy Holt Community celebration Members and Patrons Lounge View Sun Tunnels with Nancy Holt Saturday, October 20 I 6 pm I Free Participants must arrange their own transportation. Check www.umfa.utah.edu for directions and travel recommendations. ON THE COVER I Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels at sunrise ( 1973-76), detail. Concrete, steel and earth, Great Basin Desert, Utah. Photograph courtesy ZCZ Films/James Fox, 2007. Courtesy Nancy Holt and Haunch ofVenison Gallery, London. ABOVE I Nancy Holt, Sun Tunnels ( 1973-76), detail. Concrete, steel, and earth, Great Basin Desert, Utah. Photograph courtesy Nancy Holt and Haunch ofVenison Gallery, London. |
