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Nancy Holt Born April 5, 1938, Concrete Massachusetts Poetry Died February 8, Audiotapes 2014, New York Videos Father: Chemical Photographs Engineer Site-specific Mother: Homemaker Installation Husband: Robert Artists Smithson

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Nancy Holt

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Born April 5, 1938, Massachusetts Died February 8, 2014, New York Father: Chemical Engineer Mother: Homemaker Husband: Robert Smithson 1960 Biology Major Graduate, Tufts University Concrete Poetry Audiotapes Videos Photographs Site-specific Installation Artist’s Books Major Public Sculpture Commissions

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“I wanted to bring the vast space of the desert back to human scale. I had no desire to make a megalithic monument. The panoramic view of the landscape is too overwhelming to take in without visual reference points… through the tunnels, parts of the landscape are framed and come into focus… the work encloses surrounds…”

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Concrete Visions (1967)

Composite inkjet print on archival rag paper taken from

riginal 126 format black and

white negatives; printed 2012 35 x 35 in; 88.9 x 88.9 cm

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Western Graveyards (1968)

60 inkjet prints on archival rag paper, printed from original 126 format transparencies; printed

2012. 18 x 18 in; 45.7 x 45.7 cm

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Hydra’s Head (1974) Mixed Media

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Pine Barrens (1975)

30:24 min, colour, sound, 16mm film on HD video

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Sun Tunnels (1973-6) Concrete, Steel, Earth Great Basin Desert, Utah

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Google Maps

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Dark Star Park (1979-84) Multi Media Public Installation Rosslyn, Virginia

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Solar Rotary (1995) University of South Florida, Tampa

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