Like many of the artists who took part in the ArtPark Residency, Nancy Holt is most associated with the Land Art movement. She is likely most known for Sun Tunnels in Utah - pictured below.
Residuals is an installation of objects and materials that operates at the intersection of (imagined) domesticity and (creative) productivity/industry. An artist residency is a place where art construction intersects with the functional necessities of life. Residuals presents an imagined intersection of the makers of this project and the notable artists who participated in the Artpark Residency in the '70s and '80s. The cabins in which they stayed were once built on these concrete slabs; t he fabricated remnant on each slab references a particular artist that attended the Artpark Residency. Allen Topolski and Aster Topolski (father/daughter) seek to emphasize the path that was cleared by the artists who preceded them - those who laid the groundwork for the many conceptual approaches they exploit in their own current work. “Owned and operated by New York State, Artpark opened in 1974 as an unprecedented experiment in artist-public interaction and site-specificity that bala...
Agnes Denes is a primary figure among the concept-based artists who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. She attended the ArtPark residency in 1977 with Laurie Anderson, Alice Ayecock and Martin Puryear and then again in 1979 with Ursula von Rydingsvard and Gene Davis. Tree Mountain - A Living Time Capsule-11,000 Trees, 11,000 People, 400 Years, 1992-96, (420 x 270 x 28 meters) Ylojarvi, Finland http://www.agnesdenesstudio.com/works4.html Here on slab #6 Met-O-Mat, found materials 2014
Mary Miss installed Blind Spot on the Artpark grounds in 1976 when she did the Residency here. Miss often employed an architectural vernacular in asserting the remains of a particular place. In Ladder for a Beech Tree (below) she took “ the visitor outside the new [then current] central complex [and ] into contact with the surrounding landscape of the earlier place" - to some extent, setting precedence for the installation here today. http://marymiss.com/projects/ladder-for-a-beech-tree-2/ Here on Slab #7 Mary's Ladder , found object, 2020 and Tharp , wood and found materials, 1989