Born and raised on the east coast, Hikmet Sidney Loe fell in love with the arid desert lands of Utah and the environs of Great Salt Lake. She is an artist, writer, and teacher whose work draws inspiration from the smaller patterns found in the larger environment and from the changeable nature of land, water, and sky.

"To be conscious of the actualities of perception": local/global attention and perception regarding Robert Smithson’s earthwork, the Spiral Jetty - conference talk as part of this International Conference + Exposition, June 13-15, 2012.
This interdisciplinary conference will explore contemporary site-specific creation, including Land Art, environmental art, public art, and performance, focusing on the analysis of the sensory, intellectual, and aesthetic perception of the work outside of the museum walls, and the study of contextualized / conceptualized forms and their modes of representation. Avignon Locators, a site-specific work by American land artist Nancy Holt, will be dedicated during the event. Commissioned by the University of Avignon, the sculpture reactivates Missoula Ranch Locators – Vision Encompassed, one of the artist's major works built in Montana in 1972 and dismantled 30 years later. The creation of the work in the campus garden, within the city walls, will celebrate the 40th  anniversary of the original creation. For more information on the conference, click here.

Art Access/VSA Utah, May 14 - June 8, 2012
I am honored to be included in this exhibition for the first time with, this photograph.

RÉGIS PERRAY
'340 grammes déplacés... during 'Levitated Mass' by Michael Heizer'
Dust from the vault of the Chartres Cathedral
West Coast, Nantes, France, Feb/Mar 2012
Powered by: OBSART | Observatoire du Land Art 
Curators: Mélanie Marbach, Marc de Verneuil
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a running project initiated by Charles Heranval & Yann Le Guennec

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