Artworks by women artists on 30 topics
related to Feminism and Contemporary Art
About this topic: Land/Landscape
This topic looks at women artists who have intervened in "landscape" as a tradition and challenged its premises.
This includes the work of women artists identified with the land art movement in the USA and as public artists producing large-scale projects for particular spaces, building (even virtual) gardens, new parks.
It also includes works where protests about land rights of indigenous peoples are key.
In land art/landscape what can be "seen", literally how a site or vision of the world is presented to us, and the point of view given by the artist to the audience are important ideas to consider.
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Georgia O'Keefe
(USA) Sky Above Clouds III/Above the Clouds III (1963) Oil on canvas, 48 x 84 inches.
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Bonnie Sherk
(USA) Portable Park (1970) San Francisco, temporary installation with grass, hay, tree, cows (in street)
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Nancy Graves
(USA) Sun Tunnels (1973 - 1976) Great Basin Desert, North West Utah
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Mary Miss
(USA) Sunken Pool (1974) wood, steel, water, 13 ft high, 20 foot diameter
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Alice Aycock
(USA) Simple Network of Underground Wells and Tunnels (1975) earth, timber, concrete, 28 x 50 feet, audience can crawl and enter tunnels.
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Nancy Holt
(USA) Pine Barrens (1975) 35 mm film 32 min
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Vija Celmins
(USA, Latvia) Ocean (1975) photograph
Tate Modern
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Theresa Hak Yung Cha
(USA) Passages Paysages (1978) three-channel video
University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
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Lynn Silverman
(USA) Horizons (Southern End, Birdsville Track, South Australia) (1979) black and white photographic prints
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Lorraine Leeson and Peter Dunn
(UK) Docklands Community Poster Project (1981 - 1984) photo collage, posters 400 x 600 cm
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Kate Blacker
(UK) Local Landscape, Local Lady (1983) painted, corrugated metal floor/wall installation 175 x 200 x 100 cm
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Renee Green
(USA) Site/Scene (1990) postcards, binoculars, plexiglas, wood, stands 66" x 66" x 135"
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Jin Me-Yoon
(Canada) Souvenirs of the Self (1991) 6 postcards in a perforated strip, project for Banff Centre, Canada
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Shelley Niro
(Canada) This Land is Mime Land (Judge Me Not, 500 Year Itch, Love Me Tender, Survivor, Camouflaged) (1992) series of 12 panels, each with a hand-tinted gelatin silver print, a sepia-toned gelatin silver print, and a gelatin silver print in a hand-drilled mat, 36 x 28 cm each photograph
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Lorna Green
(UK) Meet Sit and Talk (1995) public art: sandstone, polished granite, gravel, planting, Chancellors Court, University of Leeds 100 x 125 x 3 metres
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Char Davies
(Canada) Osmose (1995) immersive virtual environment of landscape, experienced through head mounted display
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Sarah Morris
(UK) Capital (2000) 16 mm film, colour, sound, 18 mins, 18 sec
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Elisabeth Ballet
(France) Carrefour du Pot d'Etain (2001) white granite and black basalt paving in streets of la Ville de Pont-Audemer
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Susan Silton
(USA) tornado in a jar (2003) LCD monitor, stand, video projection
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Christine and Margaret Wertheim
(USA) The Institute for Figuring Companions: Crochet and Anemome Garden (2005) Coral Reef project reconstructed in craft techniques
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Yee I-Lann
(Malaysia) Sulu Stories (2005) photographic series of Sulu peninsula, collaged images
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Tea Mäkipää
(Finland) 10 Commandments for the 21st Century (2006) poster, print, website
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Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
(Thailand) Dow Song Duang (the Two Planets Series) (2008) video, colour, sound, 18:30 min
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Emily Floyd
(Australia) Our Community Garden (2009) five black plinths with sculptural elements, acrylic paint, beeswax on wood, hemp rope
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Sofie Thorsen
(Denmark) The Achromatic Island (2010) video
Statens Museum for Kunst
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Inoue Hiroko
(Japan, Germany) Mori: Forest (2011) photographic series, juxtaposing forest in Japan and Germany
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Eve Fowler
(USA) IT IS SO, IS IT SO (2014) LAND Manifest Destiny Billboard Project, Houston, Texas - billboards with quotes