1. Place and Space in
Contemporary U.S. Art
Context, Site‐Specificity, Installa4on,
Tara Donovan

2. Historical Precedents

3. Hudson River School mid 1800s

4. Christo and Jeanne-Claude (1983) Biscayne Bay, Miami

5. Christo and Jeanne-Claude (1969) Wrapped Coast, Australia (one million sq feet of fabric)

6. Spiral Je7y by Robert Smithson (1970)

7. Place as Inspiration

8. Paul Strand

9. Diane Arbus

10. Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show

11. “Gone with the Wind”

12. Miami’s South Beach Deco District

13. Western Washington State

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15. Installation

16. Ant Farm

17. Ant Farm (1974) Cadillac Ranch located in Amarillo Texas

18. The piece is a statement about the paradoxical simultaneous American fascina4ons
with both a "sense of place" — and roadside a7rac4ons, such as The Ranch itself —
and the mobility and freedom of the automobile

21. Tara Donovan

22. Tara Donovan (2003) Haze (42ft wall of over two million drinking straws)

23. Tara Donovan (2003) Haze (42ft wall of over two million drinking straws)

24. Tara Donovan (2003) Untitled (3 million cups)

25. Tara Donovan (2003) Untitled

26. Tara Donovan (2003) Untitled

27. Tara Donovan

29. Tara Donovan (2002) Colony (pencils and glue)

30. Tara Donovan (2002) Nebulous (scotch tape)

31. Tara Donovan (2002) Nebulous (scotch tape)

32. Tara Donovan (2003) Installation at ACE Gallery http://www.acegallery.net/

33. Sarah Sze

34. Sarah Sze

35. Sarah Sze (1999)
Everything the Rises Will Converge

36. Sarah Sze

37. Sarah Sze

38. Sarah Sze (2003) Tilted Planet

39. Sarah Sze (2003) Tilted Planet

40. Sarah Sze (2003) Tilted Planet

41. Paul Chan
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42. Paul Chan

43. Paul Chan

44. Paul Chan

45. Paul Chan

46. Paul Chan

47. Paul Chan

48. Paul Chan

49. Angiola Churchill

50. Angiola Churchill

51. Angiola Churchill

52. Angiola Churchill

53. Angiola Churchill

54. Angiola Churchill

55. Angiola Churchill

56. Angiola Churchill

57. Angiola Churchill

58. Public Art

60. Peter Coffin

68. • OCTOBER 1, 2009 – NEW YORK: Public Art Fund is
pleased to present the first major outdoor exhibition in
New York of artist Peter Coffin. Populating City Hall Park
with 13 monumental silhouettes of iconic sculptures,
Coffin’s Untitled (Sculpture Silhouettes) takes the viewer
on a journey through the history of sculpture in space and
time.Variations on Auguste Rodin’s The Thinker, an Easter
Island moai, Louise Bourgeois’ Untitled (With Hand), one of
Sol LeWitt’s Incomplete Open Cubes, and Pablo Picasso’s
She Goat, among others, hover like apparitions throughout
the Park. Ranging in size from eight to ten feet tall, their
commanding sculptural presence is somewhat of an illusion;
each work is only one inch thick. The sculptures slip in and
out of view, similar to the way in which memories slip in
and out of one’s mind. The decision to hold the vision in
place or let it fade is left to the viewer.

69. Antony Gormley

70. Antony Gormley at Madison Park, NYC

71. Antony Gormley at Madison Park, NYC

72. Antony Gormley at Madison Park, NYC

73. Antony Gormley at Madison Park, NYC

74. Antony Gormley at Madison Park, NYC

75. Antony Gormley at Madison Park, NYC

76. Miranda July

77. Miranda July

78. Miranda July

79. Miranda July

80. Miranda July

81. Miranda July

82. Miranda July

83. Miranda July

84. Miranda July

85. Miranda July

86. Miranda July

87. Site-Specificity

88. Jeffrey Mongrain

89. Jeffrey Mongrain

90. Jeffrey Mongrain

91. Jeffrey Mongrain

92. Jeffrey Mongrain

93. Jeffrey Mongrain

94. Jeffrey Mongrain

95. Jeffrey Mongrain

96. Jeffrey Mongrain

99. Roof at Met

100. Roxy Paine on the Rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum 2009

101. Roxy Paine on the Rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum 2009

102. Roxy Paine on the Rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum 2009

103. Roxy Paine on the Rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum 2009

104. Roxy Paine on the Rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum 2009

105. Roxy Paine on the Rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum 2009

106. Roxy Paine on the Rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum 2009

107. Roxy Paine on the Rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum 2009

108. Roxy Paine on the Rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum 2009

110. Liza Lou

115. • 1. Liza Lou’s portraits of presidents George Washington through William Clinton are created
entirely out of beads and bordered in wide bands of gold beads to look like framed black and
white photographs. To Lou, the “zillions of beads” used in the portraits symbolize “grand
campaign promises of a sparkling future for America and the fulfillment of the American
dream.” But there’s a fun side to the portraits, too, as Lou remarks, “It’s humorous to see men
in beads. Herbert Hoover is not someone you associate with glitter.”
• 2. A former student of the San Francisco Art Institute, Lou describes her transformation
from painter to beader: “I began as a painter and I walked into a bead store and it was just
like a flash in my mind. I just thought, ‘My God, that’s the most amazing paint I’ve
ever seen.’” She was “hated” for her use of beads and “mortified” her teachers and
classmates, but her $500,000 “genius grant” from the MacArthur Foundation in 2002 helped
silence some of those who believed her work wasn’t real art.
• 3. The glass beads used in Lou’s work are all from the Czech Republic; she explains that
Czech beads “are really the most wonderful beads on earth.” Though she originally bought
them in small packets, she now buys so many at a time they’re delivered by truck and
unloaded with forklifts. Her 1999 sculpture “Back Yard,” a full-sized (600
square feet) suburban lawn, is comprised of more than 30 million glass
beads, many of which are in the 250,000 individually beaded blades of
grass that make up the lawn.
• More: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2006/mar/21/1

117. Home as Art

119. The Flower Man
Houston

124. The Beer Can House
Houston

125. John Milkovitsch Former Railroad Worker

127. 39.000 beer cans
18 Years to construct

128. Beer pull tabs as wind chimes
Detail of mailbox

129. “John thought beer cured everything”
explained wife Mary after the creator,
John Milkovitch, died.

130. The Orange Show
Houston

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136. Houston
(as eccentric place)
art car parade

137. Houston Art Car Parade 2001

138. Houston Art Car Parade 2001

139. Houston Art Car Parade 2001

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