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Nancy Holt at UB Art Galleries

Nancy Holt’s work Trail Markers (1969) from the Holt/Smithson Foundation is currently on show in the group exhibition Wanderlust: Actions, Traces, Journeys 1967-2017 at the University at Buffalo Art Galleries, New York. Curated by Rachel Adams, UB Art Galleries Senior Curator, the exhibition continues to December 31 2017 and tours to Anna K. Meredith Gallery at the Des Moines Art Center from February 17 2018 to May 13 2018.

This 50-year survey exhibition considers the themes of action and exploration outside of the studio, investigating how artists engage this theme in various ways, including walking, cartography, land use, endurance, and the consideration of public space.

Nancy Holt, Trail Markers (1969)
Dartmoor, England, U.K.
Photo-series of 20 inkjet prints on archival rag paper, from original 126 format transparencies
22 1/8 x 22 1/8 in. (55.9 x 55.9 cm) each

© Holt/Smithson Foundation, Licensed by VAGA at ARS, New York

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In May of 1971 Robert Smithson and Nancy Holt returned to Florida to visit the Florida Keys, with Smithson seeking potential locations for his Island Maze and Forking Island. While these hypothetical earthworks exist today solely through Smithson's drawings, on this trip Smithson did plant an earthwork he called Mangrove Ring—which is also the subject of a short film of the same name by Nancy Holt.