Carl Andre

Carl Andre, born in Massachusetts in 1935, was an artist who focused on poetry and sculpture. Most of Andre’s sculptures used wood, industrial metal, or bricks. This piece is called “Stone Field Sculpture”, which includes 36 rocks local to where they were placed in Hartford, Connecticut. The representation of the sculpture relates to tombstones, which is made obvious by the cemetery which lies less than a block away. This is the only sculpture that I could find that was located outside, and it relates to the land more than any of his other pieces.



This sculpture as well as most of Andre’s other sculptures show a pattern. The sculpture below is far from unusual in relation to Andre's other works. This grid pattern is repeated multiple times throughout his works.

Alan Sonfist

Alan Sonfist is an american artist and designer who began working in the 1960s. Sonfist works with landscapes and natural themes to uncover the earth's secret story. Environmentalism plays a key role in Sonfists art as he employs sustainable methods to create his pieces by using recycled materials. He is associated with a movement in art called the earth art movement that seeks to create a link between landscape and art and is hailed as one of the first environmental artists.

One of Sonfists most recognized works is called "Time Landscape" which includes living plants and animals in art. Indigenous plants and animals were reintroduced into a plot of land in Greenwich Village to recreate a precolonial forest in New York City.

Richard Long by Katie Scoville

"I consider my landscape sculptures inhabit the rich territory between two ideological positions, namely that of making 'monuments' or conversely, of 'leaving only footprints.' " (Taken from http://www.richardlong.org/)


Richard long is known for doing things very large or like he describes, literally leaving only footprints. In 1967 Richard Long became famously known for walking. In this year he made his first work made by walking which was a straight line in a grass field.

What I found really interesting is where he took this initial idea. Not only does he physically walk and take pictures of this as art. He also documents his walks by text in various ways. He generally takes notes of what he is doing while he is walking or things he is seeing. Depending upon the actions he is doing and/or the lines he is making he decides what is best suited for displaying the work: photography or text.



This is a great website if you are interested in seeing more of his works or learning more about him. I have never found it so easy to get so much information on an artist for one of these assignments. This website is great! http://www.richardlong.org/

Jeanne Dunning

Jeanne Dunning is a Chicago artist who mostly focuses on photography. So much in fact that I could only find one body extension project under her name. In the picture a body suit is put on a woman and it is filled with liquid, and is probably very heavy. When the model lays down it squishes out, and has been compared to a tumor.. This piece is referred to as the “blob”. Overall she is said to try to make things look like other things than what they actually are, typically using the human body.

Patruke Dongherty:

he Summer Palace
Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 2009.
Photographer: Rob Cardillo.

Easy Does It
Hollywood Art & Culture Center, Hollywood, Florida, 1998.
Photographer: John Lawrence.


Patrick Dougherty is an internationally recognized sculptor who uses tree saplings as his artistic medium. He is interested in nature, when he is young in rural North Carolina where he would build trees houses. His work, which is created by interweaving branches and twigs together, alludes to nests, cocoons, hives, and lairs built by animals. Dougherty tries to show his work like just fell from the sky in a gust of wind or grew naturally in their settings.

Patrick Dougherty has created nearly 200 site- specific sculptures in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe and Asia over the past 20 years his work has been displayed at the National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., the Museum of Glass in Tacoma, WA., and the American Crafts Museum in New York City, among other places.

alice aycock

alice aycock is an artist from PA who makes art combining sculptural and architectural forms. the work is thought of and created with the intent of milking emotion out of people and gauging their response. some of the pieces are interactive or semi-interactive such as the maze that i have pictured above. her work is inspired by a want to give alternate perspective on reality and invoke change to the viewer's emotional methods. some of the pieces deal with site specificity but most are done in gallery space.

Newton & Helen Harrison

Great Britain's transformation with the sea level rising 100m

Together the Harrisons are historians, diplomats, ecologists, investigators, and art activists. Their work involves proposing solutions and involves not only public discussion, but extensive mapping and documentation of these proposals in an art context.


Past projects have focused on watershed restoration, urban renewal, agriculture and forestry issues among others. The Harrisons’ visionary projects have often led to changes in governmental policy and have expanded dialogue around previously unexplored issues leading to practical implementations throughout the United States and Europe.

Herbert Bayer

Herbert Bayer was a graphic designer, painter, photographer, sculptor, Art Director, environmental & interior designer and architect. Bayer is considered one of the few "total artists" of the twentieth century, because of his vast workings with so many types of media. He produced work which expressed the needs of an industrial age as well as mirroring the advanced tendencies of the avant-garde. Many of his sculptures are very large scale and serve as city landmarks. The "Articulated Wall" located in Denver and "Double Ascension" in Los Angeles are some examples of his work.

Bayer is also credited for completing the first recorded "earthwork" or contemporary environmental art. Titled "Grass Mound", it is a 40 foot diameter mound located at the Aspen Art Institute in Colorado. According to an online source the piece offers a balanced community where livelihood, sports, culture and art can be pursued amidst the beauty of nature. This concept of earthwork influenced many other popular artists. Bayer himself did other pieces that not only provided a visual for the viewer but allowed them to interact with it and nature. his pieces also had some function and would aid with water runoff and erosion.

Allan Kaprow

Allan Kaprow was an American Painter, who eventually took interest in performance art. He was especially interested in Art combined with everyday life. His projects were referred to as "happenings" in the 1950's and 60's. Happenings for Kaprow could be a game, an adventure, or a number of activities engaged in by people simply for the sake of playing.

An interesting example that I found is a project called "Drag". Participants would attach a cinder block to themselves with a string. When the person sees an acquaintance, they then change the mode of transportation of the block. The person starts off dragging it. When they see someone they start carrying it. The next time they see someone they know they push it. The goal is to draw the experiment out as long as possible. Kaprow was able to make art an experience that was not more favorable towards the viewer or the participant. I learned that this kind of interaction based art is also known today as "New Media Art."

In relation to Sculpture, performance and body this experiment used a combination of all three. The body in itself could be considered a sculpture. I found it especially interesting how human interaction affected the participant, and they had to modify the way that the block was transported.

jan Dibbets

One of Dibbets' most notable pieces was his "6 hours tide project," where he re-created a film he had made in 1969 titled "‘Land Art’. I Fernsehausstellung I." In the first film, Dibbets is shown drawing a trapezoid in the sand with a shovel (from the camera angle it looks like a square), and than he waits for it to disappear as the tide rises. In "6 hours tide" he directs a tractor to draw the trapezoid in the sand, and as the tide rises, the water flows through the tracks that were created, and slowly dissolves the square. I wasn't really able to connect with this specific piece. I watched the Youtube videos (posted below) and still wasn't able to totally understand his point. it was sort of cool how the water reacted to the tracks that were made in the sand, but overall the piece didn't move me much. I think nature in its self has a little more to offer than land art like this.

Robert Morris

Robert Morris was born in 1931, Kansas City, was one of the most versatile American artists. He creates works that range from Neo-Expressionist paintings to Minimalist sculptures to Earth art. Further, he has explored dance and performance in his quest to examine the relationship between viewer and object. By inhabiting different genres, adopting diverse styles, and working with a multitude of materials, Morris examines the exchange between the observer and the observed across the entire spectrum of the arts. Morris is never content to produce a beautiful object. Stubbornly intellectual, he creates art that involves an exercise in perception and behavior for the viewer. Since he felt that modern galleries resist any meaningful interaction with space, Morris created an installation at the Louisiana Museum in Denmark that deployed mirrors and beams to restructure the environment. The result was a fragmented labyrinth that challenged perception and orientation, and called attention to how we live and move in space. Morris does not see space as a neutral medium for housing art objects; instead, he wants to make space problematic. As he states: "I would like to float out the notion of an interrogative space, questionable as this might be, so that when the examples of the art appear they are coated or infected with a kind of question-like aspect." In 1965, Morris arranged three gray, L-shaped plywood beams on the floor in different positions. The beams were identical, but the viewer was persuaded to perceive them as different. His Earth art changed the appearance of natural features of the landscape, creating new environments that demanded new behavior. In each case, Morris' arrangement of space questions how space, objects, and perception interrelate to form an aesthetic experience. Morris does not provide answers; he's interested in the kinds of answers he can generate from viewers. He once wrote: "It is as if I wanted to say that my actions in making art fell on the side of the question rather than of the statement."

Michael Heizer

"As long as you're going to make a sculpture,
why not make one that competes with a 747, or
the Empire State Building, or the Golden Gate Bridge."
Michael Heizer is considered to be amongst the great figures in the earth/land art movement. Spanning generations his most recognized work was created on such a grand scale that, though it is meant to be experienced first hand, it is best viewed from satellite photographs. Double Negative is a set of two unfinished matched trenches in Mormon Mesa that Heizer literally blasted out of the earth in 1969-70. The two trenches together measure 1,500 feet long, 50 feet deep, and 30 feet wide and their creation displaced 240,000 tons of rock, mostly rhyolite and sandstone.

The son of an anthropologist and grandson of a geologist his interest lies in the earth itself as well as in the question of what is art if it cannot fit into a gallery. His smaller works include making monumental copies of stone age tools or engraving a pattern of randomly dropped matches into a gallery sidewalk (which he later replicated in the desert at a grand scale). For the the last 36 years he has been working on a monumental project called The City. In rural Nevada this project extends over a mile long and a thousand feet wide and is estimated to have cost more than 25million dollars by the time it is finished which Heizer estimates will be sometime this year.

Body Extensions..

Hi all, These are the pictures I took of the class after Hannah's camera-battery died. If your not in this batch I'm sure that Hannah must have captured it. :) See you monday...

Nils Udo

Nils Udo is a landscape artist that originally began as a painter but began to work exclusively with nature in 1972 after he moved from Paris to rural Bavaria and experienced the ongoing destruction of nature. Udo primarily designs site-specific works that only use natural materials from the area.

Udo's "Romantic Landscape" (1992) relates to the human form because it was designed to be used as a children's playground. It is located on the grounds of the Ludwig Forum in Aachen, Germany. It is a constructed landscape that is an attempt to reproduce a specific type of landscape from the German Romantic period. The piece is elevated off the ground on a platform in order to display nature as art and literally set it on a pedestal.

The other piece pictured is "Waterhouse" (1982) located at the Waddensee Mudflats in Holland. It is composed of a pool made from excavated earth, spruce trunks, birch branches , willow switches and sod.

I really love Udo's work. It is very sophisticated and beautiful and demonstrates natural beauty. A lot of his work seems to also work as optical illusions, which I think is cool. I admire Udo's reverence for nature and use of all natural materials.

Alice Adams

Lives in New York and is a sculpture artist who weaves tapestries and other found objects. Public art and sculpture is her main focus however she studied painting in college. Some site specific pieces are located in New York, Omaha Nebraska, and Toledo Ohio. Universities an airports have requested her work during the 70’s and 80’s. She also got involved in many collaborative pieces later in life.

Abstract and pre-abstract expressionist painters heavily Influenced her early work. She explored many minimalist ideas through her work. She used rope, steel cables, chain link fencing, 2x4’s and wood lathes. Architecture heavily influenced her public projects which have won her many awards. Many names have been applied to her projects like Land Art, Earth Works, and Site Sculpture.