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A person standing inside Nancy Holt's Electrical System at Sprueth Magers LA

Nancy Holt, Electrical System (1982)
Installation view: Nancy Holt: Locating Perception, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, 2022
3/4 in. steel conduit, lighting and electrical fixtures, light bulbs, electrical wire
34 ft. 6 in. x 25 ft. 4 in. x 9 ft. 2 in. (10.5 x 7.7 x 2.8 m)
Photograph: Robert Wedemeyer
Courtesy Holt/Smithson Foundation and Sprüth Magers
 

© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York

Artworks
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A series of twenty photographs captured along the high moor of Dartmoor National Park in Britain. Each photograph featuring an orange mark painted onto each stone marker.

1966—1969

black background with a black and white circle in the center that displays a cracked window.

1970—1972

A circular pool of water reflecting a blue sky.

1973—1976

Nancy Holt's Star-Crossed made of two large intersecting concrete tunnels

1977—1980

a concrete and metal sculpture of an undulating wall and circular steel inset into the wall

1981—1983

Nancy Holt's sculpture Electrical Lighting for Reading Room made of lightbulbs and conduit along three walls

1984—2014

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Nancy Holt’s artworks Sun Tunnels (1973-76) and Holes of Light (1973), and Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty (1970) are
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