New Publication: Blind Spot Folios featuring Nancy Holt and Richard Misrach

We are delighted to announce a new publication is available from Blind Spot featuring previously unseen photo-based work related to Nancy Holt's Sun Tunnels (1973-76) by Holt and Richard Misrach. ⁠

Blind Spot Folios is a new annual series and edition 001 contains a pair of volumes. Richard Misrach’s folio features images of Holt’s landmark earthwork Sun Tunnels that he photographed in 1988. Holt’s volume contains a selection of photo studies made in 1975 and excerpts from a Self-Interview, developed while she was conceiving the work.⁠

Offset printed by Trifolio in Verona, Italy on Mohawk Superfine 135gsm paper. Each volume is composed of four unbound nested leaves, folded to 11 x 15 inches, housed in a custom embossed Colorplan folder with die cuts. The folder is offset printed with a conversation between Lisa Le Feuvre, Executive Director of Holt/Smithson Foundation, and artist Richard Misrach.⁠

Print run limited to 750 copies, 100 of which are available with an 11 x 15 inch initialed and numbered plate by Richard Misrach.⁠

Now available at blindspot.com.

Nancy Holt “Sun Tunnels” (1973-76) is part of the collection of Dia Art Foundation, acquired with support from Holt/Smithson Foundation’ © Holt/Smithson Foundation and Dia Art Foundation; Holt’s photo studies are © Holt/Smithson Foundation; Richard Misrach’s photographs are © Richard Misrach courtesy of Pace Gallery, New York; Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco; Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles.⁠

Archived News

Nancy Holt: Circles of Light at Gropius Bau, Berlin

Holt/Smithson Foundation and Gropius Bau are pleased to announce the most comprehensive presentation of Nancy Holt in Germany to date. Taking a journey through Holt’s output, starting with her first artwork made in 1966, Circles of Light expands over the Gropius Bau’s ground floor and atrium. Paying attention to Holt’s experimental approach to the interplay between the immaterial and the material, this exhibition underscores the singularity of Holt’s oeuvre.

Chapter Six of Tuesday Texts

We are happy to announce that throughout January we will be publishing a sixth chapter of our Tuesday Text Series as part of our ongoing Scholarly Text Program, which invites thinkers to focus on a single artwork by Holt and/or Smithson. This chapter of Tuesday Texts will focus on artworks by Robert Smithson.

Every Tuesday we will publish a text to our website that includes images selected by the author, a short bibliography, citation reference, and endnotes pointing to the author’s references.