Dr. August Davis reviews exhibition Groundswell: the Women of Land Art for the Architect's Newspaper

January 30, 2024

Art History Department Chair Dr. August Davis

Published the review of Groundwell: the Women of Land Art exhibition at The Architect's Newspaper. The show was on display at the Nasher Sculpture Center on September 23, 2023 – January 7, 2024. Curated by the Nasher assistant curator Dr. Leigh Arnold, exhibition surveys the work of 12 American women artists who pioneered and expanded practices of land art since 1960s.

Davis states:

Groundswell’s artworks confront us with our impacts on the land. Whether we’re just being introduced to previously under-considered female artists or again facing iconic works like Ana Mendieta’s figurative impacts in Silueta or Agnes Denes’s planting and harvesting in Battery Park Landfill in Wheatfields – A Confrontation (1982), the show invites us to survey our extractions.”