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Movement > Site-specific art/Environmental art

Pioneered in U.S., and international, mid-1960s

Site-specific or Environmental art refers to an artist's intervention in a specific locale, creating a work that is integrated with its surroundings and that explores its relationship to the topography of its locale, whether indoors or out, urban, desert, marine, or otherwise. More

untitled (to Ward Jackson, an old friend and colleague who, during the Fall of 1957 when I finally returned to New York from Washington and joined him to work together in this museum, kindly communicated)

Dan Flavin, untitled (to Ward Jackson, an old friend and colleague who, during the Fall of 1957 when I finally returned to New York from Washington and joined him to work together in this museum, kindly communicated), 1971

untitled (to Tracy, to celebrate the love of a lifetime)

Dan Flavin, untitled (to Tracy, to celebrate the love of a lifetime), 1992

Untitled (Selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments, and Child Text)

Jenny Holzer, Untitled (Selections from Truisms, Inflammatory Essays, The Living Series, The Survival Series, Under a Rock, Laments, and Child Text), 1989

Installation for Bilbao

Jenny Holzer, Installation for Bilbao, 1997

Paradiso

Rebecca Horn, Paradiso, 1993

Wall Drawing #146. All two-part combinations of blue arcs from corners and sides and blue straight, not straight and broken lines.

Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawing #146. All two-part combinations of blue arcs from corners and sides and blue straight, not straight and broken lines., September 1972

Bilbao Circle

Richard Long, Bilbao Circle, 2000

Reality Properties: Fake Estates, Little Alley Block 2497, Lot 42

Gordon Matta-Clark, Reality Properties: Fake Estates, Little Alley Block 2497, Lot 42, 1974 (posthumous assembly, 1992)

Conical Intersect

Gordon Matta-Clark, Conical Intersect, 1975

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