Michael Heizer (1944- ), born in Berkeley, is the son of the late Robert F. Heizer, one of America's foremost archaeologists. After attending the San Francisco Art Institute, Heizer started creating monumental earth works in the late 1960's. Although he has worked in most media, the earthworks, which evoke archaeological imagery of intaglios, trenches, mastabas and temples, have drawn the most attention in the artworld. Other public sculptural pieces of his are located in the Civic Center in Lansing, Michigan, the IBM Building in New York City and in Seattle's Myrtle Edwards Park. He has been widely exhibited in individual and group shows at galleries and museums, including the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Hirshhorn in Washington, D.C., the Whitney, the Guggenheim and the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
The text has been provided courtesy of Michael Several, Los Angeles, July 1998.
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