Michael Heizer
Michael Heizer
Michael Heizer is a contemporary artist specializing in large-scale sculptures and earth art. He currently lives and works in Hiko, Nevada...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionArtist
CountryUnited States of America
promoting
I come from an academic background. I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
gentle image
I'm not a dogmatic, purist psychopath. There's an unfair image of me - mean, crazy, hostile. I'm really a very gentle person.
frank genuine gimmick instance likes sculptures size trick work
The size thing is not some gimmick or attention-getting trick but a genuine undercurrent of the work. Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.
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I wasn't an academic looking in books for ideas. But I educated myself about historical work that was similar to mine, to provide a frame of reference that wasn't the usual frame of reference of the New York art world and Europe.
commitment thinking space
I think size is the most unused quotient in the sculptor's repertoire because it requires lots of commitment and time. To me it's the best tool. With size you get space and atmosphere: atmosphere becomes volume. You stand in the shape, in the zone.
photograph can-not i-can
I have looked at so many photographs, I can not see them anymore.
raised promoting
I wasn't raised to be into promoting myself.
theme painter sculptors
This theme of bigness — all painters and sculptors have dealt with it ever since.
sculpture likes imagine
Frank Gehry for instance likes to imagine his buildings as sculptures. I like to imagine my sculptures as architectural.