Nancy Holt, Dreamscape: "Crossings" (1982)
Lithographic print on black paper
30 x 44 in. (76.2 x 111.8 cm)
Edition of 75 + 5AP
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Nancy Holt, Dreamscape: "Crossings" (1982)
Lithographic print on black paper
30 x 44 in. (76.2 x 111.8 cm)
Edition of 75 + 5AP
© Holt/Smithson Foundation / Licensed by Artists Rights Society, New York
Dreamscape: “Crossings” was Nancy Holt’s first lithograph and was made as part of the Trisolini Print Project at Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, in an edition of 75. The image is sourced from photographs Holt took of a model she made for Star-Crossed (1979-80) located on the campus of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio.
Holt chose to use this same title, and an image of the lithograph, to accompany a short text she published in the catalogue for the exhibition Imagining Antartica at Nordico-Museum der Stadt in Linz, Austria in 1986.
Star-Crossed, like Hydra’s Head (1974) and Sun Tunnels (1973-76) is a sculpture Holt described as “bringing the sky down to earth.” It is sited on the campus of Miami University Art Museum, one of the few places where true (or astronomical) north and magnetic north met in 1979.
O Moon (1990) is a lithograph on black paper by Nancy Holt, produced in an edition of 16. It is one of only two lithographs she created. While the moon is a recurring point of reference in Holt’s interest in light, celestial phenomena, and visual perception, O Moon is a rare work in which she represents the moon directly as an image.
