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VIRGINIA DWAN AT EL MIRAGE EXTERIOR OF THE FIRST DWAN GALLERY, DRY LAKE, 1970 BROXTON AVENUE, WESTWOOD, , 1961 VIRGINIA DWAN

EARTHWORKS EXHIBITION AT DWAN GALLERY, NEW YORK, NEW YORK, 1968 VIRGINIA DWAN // EARTHWORKS

MICHAEL HEIZER DENNIS OPPENHEIM STEPHEN KALTENBACH ROBERT MORRIS SOL LEWITT CARL ANDRE HERBERT BAYER

MICHAEL HEIZER

MICHAEL HEIZER'S CIRCULAR SURFACE, PLANAR MICHAEL HEIZER, DOUBLE DISPLACEMENT DRAWING, EL MIRAGE DRY LAKE, NEGATIVE, 1969 1969 MICHAEL HEIZER WALTER DE MARIA

DWAN GALLERY ADVERTISEMENT WALTER DE MARIA IN FOR WALTER DE MARIA's HAMBURG, 1968 EXHIBITION "BED OF SPIKES," FEATURING DE MARIA'S MILE LONG DRAWING, 1968 WALTER DE MARIA

WALTER DE MARIA'S DESERT CROSS, EL MIRAGE DRY LAKE, 1969. QUESTIONS

• In what ways can Dwan Gallery be seen as an East coast parallel of, and / or counterpoint to, ? Do land artists engage with the mythological identity of the frontiersman with the same degree of consciousness as did the Ferus artists with the equally mythological identity of the macho man? • Is there more or less room for the presence of female artists in the earthworks movement than there was in the Ferus gallery? • How does ’s straddling of east and west coasts trouble notions of geographic affiliation/ specificity? • How does the tension between the rejection of the traditional commercial New York art world and the contradictory need or desire for its attention and interest plague the work of the land artists? Is this tension ever reconciled?