Structured Power: Women of Land Art Symposium

Jenni Sorkin examines how gendered hierarchies of power affected women who created Land art in the late 20th century. Part 1 of the Women of Land Art Symposium. Presented September 23, 2023 at Nasher Sculpture Center. PRESENTER Jenni Sorkin, Professor of the History of Art and Architecture at the University of California, Santa Barbara SUBSCRIBE: http://nashersc.org/youtubesubscribe LEARN MORE: https://www.nashersculpturecenter.org ABOUT GROUNDSWELL: WOMEN OF LAND ART "Groundswell" features 12 artists recognized for their sustained engagement with Land art: Lita Albuquerque (American, born 1946); Alice Aycock (American, born 1946); Beverly Buchanan (American, 1940–2015); Agnes Denes (American, born Hungary, 1931); Maren Hassinger (American, born 1947); Nancy Holt (American, 1938–2014); Patricia Johanson (American, born 1940); Ana Mendieta (American, born in Cuba, 1948–1985); Mary Miss (American, born 1944); Jody Pinto (American, born 1942); Michelle Stuart (American, born 1933); and Meg Webster (American, born 1944). Through works made from the late 1960s through 1990, "Groundswell" provides a broad overview of themes and artworks that are integral to understanding the history of Land art. While most scholarship on the field tends to focus on the decades of the 1960s and 1970s, broadening this time frame allows us to chart the emergence of Land art in the 1960s, its so-called decline in the 1970s, and artists’ transition from working in rural, unpopulated settings to creating Land art in urban centers with the emergence of public art programs and art parks that flourished around the United States in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Curated by Nasher Associate Curator Dr. Leigh A. Arnold and organized by the Nasher Sculpture Center, "Groundswell: Women of Land Art" is accompanied by a fully illustrated scholarly catalogue with a central essay by Dr. Arnold, and contributions by Scout Hutchinson, Jana La Brasca, Anna Lovatt, Jenni Sorkin, and Anne Thompson, co-published by the Nasher Sculpture Center and DelMonico VIDEO CREDITS: Sound Ideas