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Michael Heizer. North, East, South, West, 1967—2002. © Michael Heizer. Photo: Tom Vinetz. |
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Michael Heizer. Essen: Museum Folkwang, in association with the Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, 1979. Texts by Zdenek Felix, Michael Heizer, and Ellen Joosten.
Michael Heizer: Sculpture in Reverse. Ed. Julia Brown. Los Angeles: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984. Texts by Rainer Crone, Paula Deitz, Barbara Heizer, and Sam Wagstaff, and an interview by Julia Brown.
Michael Heizer: Dragged Mass Geometric. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985. Interview by David Whitney.
McGill, Douglas C. Michael Heizer: Effigy Tumuli. New York: Abrams, 1990.
Michael Heizer: Double Negative—Sculpture in the Land. New York: Rizzoli, in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and the Nevada Institute for Contemporary Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, 1991. Text by Mark C. Taylor.
Michael Heizer. Milan: Fondazione Prada, 1996. Text by Germano Celant.
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| Biography |
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Michael Heizer was born in Berkeley, California, in 1944, the son of the anthropologist Robert Heizer. After briefly attending the San Francisco Art Institute in 1963–64, he moved to New York in 1966. In 1967 Heizer began creating large Earthworks, primarily in California and Nevada. For his first one-person show, at the Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, in 1969, he removed 1,000 tons of earth in a conical shape to create Munich Depression. He followed this with Double Negative, a displacement of over 240,000 tons of earth to make two vast incisions opposite one another on the edge of Virgin River mesa, Nevada. Heizer's next one-person show was at the Dwan Gallery, New York, in 1970, and that same year he exhibited in the International Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Major exhibitions of his work have been staged at institutions such as the Museum Folkwang, Essen (1979), and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1984). Heizer lives in Nevada, where he continues to work on City, a sculptural complex begun in 1970 currently supported by Dia and Lannan Foundation.
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| Guided Walk Throughs |
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A guided tour through Michael Heizer's North, East, South, West is given at 10:30 am on days of operation. To reserve for adults [18+ years], call 845.440.0100 x42 or e-mail: heizer @ diabeacon.org, provide your last name, the number of attendees, and the day of your visit. No confirmation is necessary.
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