In the summer of 1972, Nancy Holt presented Crossed Locators at 10 Bleecker Street in New York, along with the audio work Visual Sound Zone: A Corner of 10 Bleecker Street. The location was a raw loft space repurposed by Alanna Heiss as part of her curatorial project to transform unused urban architecture into experimental art venues. The exhibition, titled Recent Work, brought together a group of then emerging artists (Power Boothe, Peter Downsbrough, Nancy Holt, Clark Murray, and Jim Reineking), each exploring form, perception, and spatial relationships through minimalist and post-minimalist vocabularies. Alanna Heiss noted in a phone call with the Foundation that during this exhibition “Nancy Holt taught me how to see.”

Developing from Holt’s studio experiments with Locators, Crossed Locators comprises four Locators arranged in two pairs across the room. Looking inward, each pair focuses on the Locator opposite it. Looking outward, they frame a series of focal points: a circular hole cut into a boarded-up window exposing bars and a brick wall; a wall of peeling paint with a circle outlined in chalk; a circular mirror; and a view of people walking on the street outside.To date, this site-responsive Locator installation has not been presented posthumously; doing so would require recreating the focal points seen in the 1972 installation.