Nancy Holt
Shadowy Bush, 2013
30 1/2 × 13 1/2in. (77.5 × 34.3 cm)
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt
Shadowy Bush, 2013
30 1/2 × 13 1/2in. (77.5 × 34.3 cm)
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Shadowy Bush was produced by Nancy Holt as a composite digital print, in an edition of twenty, for the International Sculpture Center, publisher of Sculpture magazine. The image was taken at Holt’s home in Galisteo, New Mexico where she lived from 1985. Reflecting her sustained attention to shadow and light, Shadowy Bush reveals her interest in the particularities of light in the ever-changing New Mexico landscape.
In 2013, Sculpture magazine published an interview with Holt by Joan Marter in which she discussed her System Works and public sculptures.
On July 14, 1976 Nancy Holt charted the evolving light and shadow falling to the interior space of one of the cylinders forming her landmark earthwork Sun Tunnels (1973-76). Every half hour, between 6:30 a.m.
Nancy Holt’s 2007 composite inkjet print Capulin Volcano presents five views of the extinct cinder-cone volcano in northeastern New Mexico. Formed approximately 60,000 years ago, the site is preserved today as Capulin Volcano National Monument. Rising prominently from the surrounding plains, the volcano offers expansive views that emphasize the region’s volcanic geology and broad spatial scale. This work is one of two photographic works Holt made in New Mexico, where she lived from 1985 onward.
