Alburquerque

Lita Albuquerque - Lets Do More

For the last of the series, we spoke with internationally acclaimed environmental artist Lita Albuquerque. Utilizing a variety of mediums, Albuquerque's work is often executed within natural landscapes — paint, installation and sculpture, transforming exotic climes such as Antarctica, the Arctic, Death Valley, the Mojave Desert and South Dakota's Badlands — into transformational works of art.

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Lita Albuquerque - Complex

In 2006, Lita Albuquerque planted 99 fiberglass spheres onto a surface of ice, arranging them as if they were points on a star map, for a project now known as Stellar Axis. Even though the large-scale work received international acclaim, it's unlikely you or anyone you know were able to see these works up close and personally. That's because Stellar Axis took place in Antarctica. Albuquerque and a team of artists and scientists went to the icy continent to create a “reverse sky,” a mirror of the South Pole's night sky on ice. Now, however, four photos of Albuquerque's groundbreaking installation is on view at Kohn Gallery so viewers will have a chance to experience her project through photography.

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Lita Albuquerque & Bruce Conner - KCRW

Lita Albuquerque & Bruce Conner - KCRW

There is one in LA who has long been concerned with creating installations in the landscape and conducting relevant works of performance art: Lita Albuquerque. There are now two opportunities to see her more recent work.

At Kohn Gallery, a selection of large photographs document her ambitious 2006 project called Stellar Axis. This is also the subject of a seriously gorgeous new book by Skira/Rizzoli, published with the Nevada Museum of Art, which presents the exhibition of her work through January 4, 2015.

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Lita Albuquerque - Los Angeles Magazine

Lita Albuquerque - Los Angeles Magazine

In 2006 Los Angeles conceptual artist Lita Albuquerque ventured to the South Pole and created the extraordinary Stellar Axis land art installation, arranging 99 blue fiberglass spheres of varying size in the Antarctic snow to reflect the configuration of stars in the night sky. “Light Carries Information,” a new show at the Kohn Gallery, features four large photographs of details from this unique work as well as a wordless eight-minute video presenting Stellar Axis in its geographic context.

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Lita Albuquerque - Art Media Agency

Kohn Gallery representing Lita Albuquerque

Los Angeles’ Kohn Gallery is now representing artist Lita Albuquerque.

Lita Albuquerque is an American installation, environmental artist, painter and sculptor. Born in California, she has been a part of the Light and Space movement, renowned for her ephemeral installations and Land Art pieces. She has been commissioned to create public art around the world at locations including the Washington Memorial and the Great Pyramids, she also represented the US at the Sixth International Cairo Biennale where she took the top prize.

Michael Kohn is hold an exhibition dedicated to the artist, due to open 15 November 2014. The show will focus on Albuquerque’s “Stellar Axis: Antarctica” project from 2006, which saw her lay out 99 blue spheres across the South Pole, mirroring the sky above, in what was the first large-scale work made in Antarctica. The gallery show will feature photographs, film, objects and archive materials from the piece.

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Lita Albuquerque - BLOUIN ARTINFO

Lita Albuquerque - BLOUIN ARTINFO

LA’s Kohn Gallery has just announced that it has added artist Lita Alburquerque to its roster. Best known for her work in the Light and Space and Land Art movements, Albuquerque has most recently shown at the Sixth International Cairo Biennale (where she took the top prize) and the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time festival.

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Lita Albuquerque - caa.reviews

One could argue that no contemporary topic has more urgency and complexity than that of the interaction between humans and the natural environment. Whether considering contemporary political policy or theories of geologic time, the question of how this moment in human history will come to terms with its existence in the larger world, literally and figuratively, is prominent across academic disciplines and various media discourses. Time, Space & Matter: Five Installations Exploring Natural Phenomena, curated by Betty Ann Brown at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, enters into this discussion, according to the introductory text for the exhibition, by “re-situating [sic] commenting on, and giving new form to environmental processes and the various histories of human interaction with them.”

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