20th Century Art 
20 June 2024
20th Century Art 
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Michael Heizer b.1944

Sandblasted Etched Glass Window

1974
etched glass, painted wood 86 h × 109½ w × 35 d in (218 × 278 × 89 cm)
estimate: $40,000–60,000
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literature: Michael Heizer, Celant, ppg. 298-301 illustrate similar examples

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Architecture as Canvas

Michael Heizer’s Sandblasted Etched Glass Window

Widely known for his massive site-specific installations and feats of engineering, Michael Heizer created the present work in 1974, two years after beginning City in eastern Nevada. Before making his name with herculean construction projects, Heizer had moved to New York in 1965 to become a painter. His Sandblasted Etched Glass Windows, created for an exhibition at Ace Gallery in Los Angeles, represent a rare intersection of Heizer’s early interest in painting and his developing fascination with both architecture and unconventional and industrial materials as means for artistic production.

You don’t have to relate to it. It’s not a requirement. All you have to do is just be there. It doesn’t matter what you think when you see it. The point is, it’s work of an artist....a lot of my thinking is based on preliterate societies. I’m very conscious of the preliterate tradition.

Michael Heizer

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