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	Michael Heizer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Texts by Zdenek Felix, Michael Heizer, and Ellen Joosten.
		Michael Heizer was born in Berkeley, California, in 1944, the son of the anthropologist Robert Heizer.
		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.
	www.diabeacon.org /exhibs_b/heizer/index.html (299 words)

	Monuments to making. (sculpture; Michael Heizer, Ace Gallery, New York, New York) - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Michael Heizer's recent indoor works, huge sculptures of stone and concrete, are inspired by ancient artifacts.
		Heizer's big sculpture was of yet another order, one whose reach seems meant to evoke the origins and nature of human civilization itself.
		Heizer's search for a contemporary solution to the economic problem of patronage for monumental art has led him to acquire substantial real-estate holdings on which to situate his sculpture; he has also developed a wide variety of skills, from techical to managerial.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1G1-17309692.html (2491 words)

	city \| double negative: a website about michael heizer \| tarasen.net
		City, Michael Heizer's life-long project, is quite possibly the largest piece of contemporary art ever attempted.
		Heizer now receives funding from the Dia Art Foundation, through grants (of undisclosed amounts) from the Lannan Foundation, the Riggio family, and the Brown Foundation.
		Heizer owns all of the property around the work and has marked the access to the site with a sign that prohibits trespassing.
	doublenegative.tarasen.net /city.html (912 words)

	Michael Heizer
		Heizer's artistic career, which began in New York around 1965-66 with abstract paintings on shaped canvases, developed from 1977 onwards, when the artist decided to work in the immense deserts of the west, the ideal settings for his principal Land Art works.
		The result was the earthworks, which, although they tended to deteriorate with the passage of time, especially due to weathering and modifications to the landscape, became the symbol of a form of American art that was in marked contrast to that of European origin, attempting to proceed beyond the traditional categories of painting and sculpture.
		Heizer's art endeavours to rediscover a material, the soil, and its physical, environmental and territorial components.
	www.fondazioneprada.org /en/html/bio_heizer.html (204 words)

	Your Gallery - Blog On News, Views, Diaries, Photo-Journals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Michael Heizer's Stone Sculptures Exhibited Together for the First Time in the US Starting today, Michael Heizer's stone sculptures, completed between 1988-89, are being exhibited together for the first time in the United States.
		Michael Heizer studied briefly at the San Francisco Art Institute from 1963 to 1964, before moving to New York City in 1966 to pursue his career as an artist.
		Heizer began creating "negative sculptures" in nature by displacing immense amounts of earth, or in the case of a gallery or museum setting, the floor.
	www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk /blogon/2006/06/michael_heizer_at_pace_wildens.php (574 words)

	Michael Heizer Essay (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		In the mid-1960s, during the same period that Michael Heizer was making large-scale, shaped, "negative" paintings in his New York City studio, he began a series of trips to his home states of Nevada and California to experiment on the expansive raw canvas of the American desert landscape, where he created "negative" sculpture.
		Heizer prefers the term size to scale in descriptions of his work, in part to emphasize the factual and visual implications of the actual distance traversed by the eye or on foot in viewing it.
		The "minimal" shapes in Heizer's sculpture abound with references to the objects and architectures of ancient cultures, to the language of sculpture, and even to the underlying crystalline morphology defining all shapes.
	www.diacenter.org /exhibs_b/heizer/essay.html (1230 words)

	Michael Heizer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Michael Heizer was born in Berkeley, California, in 1944, the son of the anthropologist Robert Heizer.
		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.
		Heizer lives in Nevada, where he continues to work on City, a sculptural complex begun in 1970 currently supported by Dia and Lannan Foundation.
	www.diacenter.org /exhibs_b/heizer (299 words)

	Michael Heizer: A Sculptor's Colossus of the Desert (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Heizer came up with the idea for "City" in 1970, when he was in the Yucatan studying the serpent motif in the ball court at Chichen Itza.
		Heizer would become upset when the shape of one of the forms he had drawn was not reproduced as he wanted.
		Heizer wants to start on the fifth phase next, meaning with the sculptures at the opposite end from Complexes 1, 2 and 3, a mile away, to define the perimeter of the entire project.
	www.bebeyond.com /LearnEnglish/DailyReadings/Arts/DesertSculptor.htm (3516 words)

	izinsiz gosteri
		Heizer says that he didn't take the pattern directly from a book, but they were already inherent in his mind in their abstract forms in general.
		Works that are done by Heizer and the others reflect the opposition against the art politics of 60s and 70s, the new eco-spirit and more important than all against the conception that regards art objects as a commercial property.
		Heizer is living in a caravan on an animal farm including dogs, cats, horses and oxen as well as scrapers, freight lorries, tractors, trailors, fertilizing machines; and at the same time carrying on the building of this statue city with the financial support of an art institution called DiaandLannan.
	www.izinsizgosteri.net /asalsayi79/ali.peksen.eng_79.html (1659 words)

	HEIZER
		Michael Heizer was born to a family of geologists and archeologists leading him to a fascination with mysterious sites marked by evidence of ancient technology such as the shifting of huge stones.
		Heizer's contributions to 'Land Art' were just a few of the many works by artists working during the Sixties who saw their earthwork schemes as a reaction to traditional gallery art and the material gain signified by institutions.
		The irony is that as the land artists including Robert Smithson, James Turrell, Mary Miss as well as Michael Heizer, enforced their grand creations upon the environment with such bravado that the natural beauty of their surroundings was often destroyed in favour of the artist's need to make a statement.
	www.articons.co.uk /heizer.htm (329 words)

	Michael Heizer - BSU
		Michael Heizer was born in Berkeley in 1944.
		Given the typical attitude about Berkeley, California during the 1960's it is not surprising one of Heizer's philosophies was, "Art had to be radical." Educated as a painter at the San Francisco Art Institute, by the late 1960's he decided to pack his bags for the desert.
		Heizer's father was an archeologist and often took Michael on digs when he was younger.
	home.earthlink.net /~thelaway/ea/people/heizer.html (545 words)

	Michael Heizer
		Michael Heizer is a contemporary artist specializing primarily in large-scale sculptures and earth art (or land art).
		Heizer was born in Berkeley, California in 1944; he began his career producing more conventional, small-scale paintings and sculptures.
		Since then, Heizer has continued his exploration of earthworks, with his efforts directed primarily toward City, an enormous complex in the rural desert of Lincoln County, Nevada.
	www.radiofreeithaca.net /search/Michael_Heizer (230 words)

	industrial landscapes/land art
		The art of Michael Heizer and Robert Smithson seeks to challenge the conventions of the art world by exposing art to a larger scale than a traditional art institution can grasp.
		Heizer and Smithson were frequent travelers throughout the southwest and their inspirations can be seen in the industrial lanscapes of the region.
		Their projects sought to take some of these industrial scale projects and remove them from the context of functionality, allowing the art to purely express the powerful connection between the forces of nature on the man made object.
	www.polarinertia.com /may03/earthwk.htm (146 words)

	Art's Last Cowboy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Heizer occasionally refers to the valley as virgin land; he obsesses about the originality of his conception, about protecting his property and his art from violation by the rail, from developers hunting for underground water, from people trying to sneak in to see the sculpture before it's finished.
		Heizer and his second wife, Mary Shanahan -- a slender, friendly, brown-haired woman with a wry sense of humor, 21 years his junior, a painter, who was his assistant before they married -- tend a small herd of cattle.
		Heizer joined us in the freezing cold, and he piped in that there were even bigger threats from developers who want to tap the valley's water table.
	webpages.charter.net /deidrep/artfeat.htm (7007 words)

	Michael Heizer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Michael Heizer is a contemporary artist specializing primarily in large-scale sculptures and earth art (or land art).
		Heizer was born in Berkeley, California in 1944; he began his career producing more conventional, small-scale paintings and sculptures.
		Since then, Heizer has continued his exploration of earthworks, with his efforts directed primarily toward City, an enormous complex in the rural desert of Lincoln County, Nevada.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Michael_Heizer (237 words)

	Virtual Globetrotting: 'City' by Michael Heizer
		While Heizer's health problems have hampered his ability to work on this piece, his passion for it seems to burn just as hot and inspire those around him to bring it to conclusion.
		City, Michael Heizer's life-long project, is quite possibly the largest piece of contemporary art ever attempted.
		Heizer now receives funding from the Dia Art Foundation, through grants (of undisclosed amounts) from the Lannan Foundation, the Riggio family, and the Brown Foundation.
	virtualglobetrotting.com /map/18538 (454 words)

	Michael Heizer at Fondazione Prada - Milan, Italy - Review of Exhibitions - Brief Article Art in America - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		This was Michael Heizer's first solo show in Italy and for his debut he presented, under the general title "Negative -- Positive +," a selection of works, large and small, from 1996.
		The relationship between sculpture and space was much more dramatic in the second gallery where Heizer raised the floor several feet to create Negative Line, an indoor, albeit 82-foot-long, version of the massive earthworks for which he is best known.
		Heizer's oeuvre is also driven by a wish to connect with the infinite (or at least the enormously large), as is evident in his outdoor interventions.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1248/is_n6_v85/ai_19488709 (540 words)

	Sculpture with Granite - North Barre Granite (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		Heizer, who in the past has used bulldozers, pneumatic drills, and dynamite to create his earthworks, has in this case created a somewhat traditional piece which in one critic's opinion, effectively handles a display in a busy urban environment like Manhattan.
		Other sculptures of Michael Heizer include: CITY/COMPLEX I, built in the Nevada desert; ADJACENT, AGAINST, UPON located in Seattle; and the most recent work, THIS EQUALS THAT commissioned by the state of Michigan, is presently under construction.
		Heizer handles the scale of the work is not a matter of small consequence, nor is his choice of material at all incidental to its success.
	www.northbarregranite.com /Pages/sculp.htm (341 words)

	Michael Heizer, North, South, East, West, 444 S. Flower St., Los Angeles
		Michael Heizer conceived this work, which cost about $200,000, in 1967 as a "sculptural negative"--four different shaped voids dug into the ground.
		Invited to design a work for this building, Heizer felt one object would lack both presence and interest for the space that the principal architect, David C. Martin, selected for him.
		Heizer and Martin, who suggested the travertine rings underneath each form, collaborated in designing the proportions, alignment and location of the pieces so they would conform to the size and scale of the space as well as to the placement of the building's doors, stairs and escalators.(2)
	www.publicartinla.com /Downtown/444/north.html (262 words)

	David Cohen on Michael Heizer at PaceWildenstein
		Heizer’s eight “stone sculptures” will seem familiar to him, as they are near-exact reproductions of Stone Age tools, a range of Paleolithic and Neolithic implements from disparate parts of the world.
		Heizer belongs to a generation that was determined to break with any notion of art as a containable experience.
		Heizer is an odd mix of materialist pragmatism and romanticism (which can also be noted in Smithson.) He was the son of an eminent anthropologist specializing in Precolumbian American cultures who took him on excavations when he was a boy.
	www.artcritical.com /DavidCohen/SUN156.htm (1157 words)

	City Pulse - December 24, 2002
		Last month, without informing internationally renowned artist Michael Heizer, the state began dismantling his monumental sculpture "This Equals That" because it was a safety hazard.
		The Heizer piece was more or less removed as a function of neglect.
		A landscape piece of the New York sculptor Allen Sonfist in St. Louis is closer to the Heizer example.
	www.lansingcitypulse.com /021224/021224heizer.html (1300 words)

	Artnews.info New York: Michael Heizer at Pace Wildenstein
		Exhibited Together for the First Time in the US NEW YORK, June 9, 2006—PaceWildenstein is pleased to announce an exhibition of Michael Heizer’s stone sculptures, completed between 1988-89, and exhibited together for the first time in the United States.
		In New York City, at the building located at 590 Madison, Heizer permanently installed Levitated Mass, 1982, a fountain made of an 11-ton stone set inside a stainless steel basin of rushing horizontal water.
		Michael Heizer lives in Nevada, where he devotes the majority of his time to completing City, a sculptural complex begun in 1970.
	www.artnews.info /gallery.php?i=166&exi=3320 (560 words)

	Michael Heizer ( - ) Artwork Images, Exhibitions, Reviews
		Michael Bowen, She Had a Beautiful Sari and She Was Brain Dead from Exhaust Fumes, 1986
		Photographs and a film on the making of the Spiral Jetty, conceived with great care by Robert Smith-son, testify to the realisation of a mind-boggling spiral of stones laid out in the salt lake, which the artist saw as the expression of the irra...
		Michael Heizer: A Sculptors Colossus of the Desert
	www.wwar.com /masters/h/heizer-michael.html (462 words)

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		Featuring Super 8 film footage and Instamatic slide images of artists Robert Smithson, Michael Heizer and Nancy Holt as they visited California's Mono Lake in July of 1968, this piece was edited by Holt in 2004.
		Heizer and Smithson are heard reading facts about the unique ecology, geology and natural phenomena of this alkaline lake; these dry recitations are interspersed with their anecdotal descriptions of their actions at the site.
		The two country and western songs were sung by Waylon Jennings at a performance in Las Vegas attended by Heizer, Holt and Smithson in the week before the trip to Mono Lake, California...
	www.eai.org /eai/tape.jsp?itemID=11669 (401 words)

	double negative \| double negative: a website about michael heizer \| tarasen.net
		Double Negative is Michael Heizer's first prominent earthwork.
		In that the artwork is itself negative space (and when it crosses empty space, it is doubly negative space, as the title suggests), it begs meditation on the principle of art as creation, when Heizer has not in fact added but substracted.
		Mark C. Taylor, 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), Hardcover, ISBN 0-847-81426-2
	doublenegative.tarasen.net /double_negative.html (952 words)

	Heizer - Webled.com
		Michael Heizer (American), 1944: Featured artist works, exhibitions and...
		[ Michael Heizer was born in Berkeley, California, in 1944, the son of ]...
		Michael Heizer: "Study for ‘Split House’" at The Mayor Gallery - Artwork details
	www.webled.com /Heizer.htm (345 words)

	Michael Heizer's City in Danger \| Advocacy \| College Art Association
		Of these, Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) and Heizer’s Double Negative (1969–70) may be the best known, but the latter artist’s City—a monumental outdoor complex begun in 1972 and still under construction—is the largest and perhaps the most ambitious.
		Heizer purchased a large tract of land in the Nevada desert, an area known as Garden Valley, as the location of his monumental project.
		Michael Kimmelman, the chief art critic for the New York Times, wrote a New York Times Magazine cover story (published February 6, 2005) about Heizer’s City and the need to protect it from the threat of the rail line.
	www.collegeart.org /advocacy/000118 (1234 words)

	Michael Heizer's City Threatened by Rail Line \| Advocacy \| College Art Association (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-16)
		After almost thirty-five years, the artist Michael Heizer is nearing the completion of City, a collection of monumental sculptural constructions located in a remote section of Nevada desert that fuse ancient structures and Minimal sculpture.
		An artwork of national and international significance, Michael Heizer’s monumental earthwork, City, is under threat from a proposed U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), rail line intended to transport nuclear waste directly through Nevada’s Garden Valley, where City is located.
		Heizer’s struggle was profiled in the New York Times Magazine’s cover story on February 6, 2005.
	www.collegeart.org /advocacy/000119 (413 words)

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