Environmental art

Environmental art

Pioneered in U.S., and international, mid-1960s
Site-specific or Environmental art refers to an artist's intervention in a specific locale, creating a work that is integrated with its surroundings and that explores its relationship to the topography of its locale, whether indoors or out, urban, desert, marine, or otherwise. More

• Dan Flavin, untitled (to Ward Jackson, an old friend and colleague who, during the Fall of 1957 when I finally returned to New York from Washington and joined him to work together in this museum, kindly communicated), 1971

• Dan Flavin, untitled (to Tracy, to celebrate the love of a lifetime), 1992

• Jenny Holzer, Untitled (Selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments, and Child Text), 1989

• Jenny Holzer, Installation for Bilbao, 1997

• Rebecca Horn, Paradiso, 1993

• Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #146. All two-part combinations of blue arcs from corners and sides and blue straight, not straight and broken lines., September 1972

• Richard Long, Bilbao Circle, 2000

• Gordon Matta-Clark, Reality Properties: Fake Estates, Little Alley Block 2497, Lot 42, 1974 (posthumous assembly, 1992)

• Gordon Matta-Clark, Office Baroque, 1977

• Claes Oldenburg and Coosje van Bruggen, Soft Shuttlecock, 1995

• Richard Serra, Snake, 1994-1997

• Richard Serra, Between the Torus and the Sphere, 2003-2005

• Richard Serra, Blind Spot Reversed, 2003-2005

• Richard Serra, Double Torqued Ellipse, 2003-2004

• Richard Serra, Torqued Ellipse, 2003-2004

• Richard Serra, Torqued Spiral (Closed Open Closed Open Closed), 2003

• Richard Serra, Torqued Spiral (Open Left Closed Right), 2003-2004

• Gordon Matta-Clark, Conical Intersect, 1975