Patricia Johanson, Dennis Oppenheim, and Athena Tacha, Who Had Started Executing Public Commissions for Large Urban Sites.” - Wikipedia DEFINITION

INTRODUCTION SITE SPECIFIC INSTALLATION DEFINITION

“Site-specific art is artwork created to exist in a certain place. Typically, the artist takes the location into account while planning and creating the artwork. The actual term was promoted and refined by Californian artist Robert Irwin, but it was actually first used in the mid-1970s by young sculptors, such as Patricia Johanson, Dennis Oppenheim, and Athena Tacha, who had started executing public commissions for large urban sites.” - Wikipedia DEFINITION

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. - Guggenheim Museum PATRICIA JOHANSON

Johanson is an artist known for her large-scale art projects that create aesthetic and practical habitats for humans and wildlife. DENNIS OPPENHEIM

Dennis Oppenheim was a conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer. DENNIS OPPENHEIM “LIGHT CHAMBER” DENVER JUSTICE CENTER ATHENA TACHA, PUTNAM COLLEGE

Athena Tacha is best known in the ﬁelds of environmental public sculpture and conceptual art. She has also worked extensively in photography, ﬁlm and artists’ books. ROBERT SMITHSON “SPIRAL JETTY” GREAT SALT LAKE, UT

Smithson's central work is Spiral Jetty - an earthwork sculpture constructed in April 1970. ROBERT SMITHSON “SPIRAL JETTY” GREAT SALT LAKE, UT CRISTO JAVACHEFF & JEANNE-CLAUDE DE GUILLEBON

Christo and Jeanne-Claude were a married couple who created environmental works of art.

For two weeks, the Reichstag in Berlin was shrouded with silvery fabric, shaped by the blue ropes, highlighting the features and proportions of the imposing structure. The Reichstag stands up in an open, strangely metaphysical area. The building has experienced its own continuous changes and perturbations: built in 1894, burned in 1933, almost destroyed in 1945, it was restored in the sixties, but the Reichstag always remained the symbol of Democracy. CRISTO JAVACHEFF & JEANNE-CLAUDE DE GUILLEBON - FLORIDA KEYS MICHAEL HEIZER "LEVITATED MASS” LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF ART

Heizer is a contemporary artist specializing in large-scale sculptures and earth art (or land art). WALTER DE MARIA “LIGHTNING FIELD"

De Maria was an artist, sculptor, illustrator and composer. His artistic practice is connected with Minimal art, Conceptual art, and Land art of the 1960s. The Lightning Field, an array of 400 steel rods in the New Mexico desert that he installed in 1977. NANCY HOLT “SUN TUNNELS”

Nancy Holt is a pioneer in the land-art movement of the 1960s and '70s and the creator of one of the era's most poetic works — “Sun Tunnels,” four huge concrete culverts set in the Utah desert to align with the sun on summer and winter solstices. MARY MISS “CONNECT THE DOTS” BOULDER, CO

Mary Miss is an artist and designer whose primary interest is the public realm. Her work has crossed boundaries between architecture, landscape architecture, engineering and urban design. MARY MISS “GREENWOOD POND” DES MOINES JAMES TURRELL “RODEN CRATER” ARIZONA

James Turrell is an artist primarily concerned with light and space. JAMES TURRELL “RODEN CRATER” ARIZONA

Roden Crater is a cinder cone type of volcanic cone from an extinct volcano, with a remaining interior volcanic crater. It is located northeast of the city of Flagstaff in northern Arizona. CREATIVES USE VARIOUS APPROACHES TO DESIGN SITE-SPECIFIC WORKS MEANT TO BECOME PART OF ITS LOCALE, AND TO RESTRUCTURE THE VIEWER’S CONCEPTUAL AND PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE OF THAT LOCALE THROUGH THE ARTIST’S INTERVENTION.