Holes of Light

This work is unique a combination of photographs and drawing by artist Nancy Holt for a gallery project realized in the early 1970s.  The 1973 installation piece "Holes of Light,” was originally displayed in New York's LoGiudice Gallery. The artists hand and thinking process are revealed in the work which is a collage of photographic images and pencil drawn images and notations.   The work functions simultaneously as documentation the physical installation and an artwork in its own right. The original installation played with the dimensions of time and space, with the viewers' own shadows calling attention to the way they themselves occupied space and the timed lights revealing that sense of impermanence.

Nancy Holt is recognized as a significant figure in theland-basedd art movement of the 1960s and 1970s. She was one of the few women working in that genre and worked at a very large scale on projects around the world. Holt, along with her husband Robert Smithson, are two of the most significant practitioners and documenters of the movement.