Catalog designed by Tracey Cameron. Exhibit Curated by Lydia Owens, 2019.
In the spring and summer of 1969, Phillips Simkin, curated an exhibition at the LBIF. He invited a stellar groupof artists who were at the forefront
of what became known as the Earthworks movement. These artists wanted to challenge traditional art mediums and conventions. Many of these Earthworks artists were in the early stages of their illustrious artistic careers at the time that the exhibit at the LBI Foundation was taking place. That exhibit included the following artists: Robert Smithson, Bill Bollinger, Sol LeWitt, Christo, Richard Serra, Rafael Ferrer, Dennis Oppenheim, Hamish Fulton, Philip Glass, Michael Heizer, Peter Hutchinson, Will Insley, Robert Morris, Reiner Ruthenbeck, and Keith Sonnier. For our current exhibition in 2019, we have invited an impressive group of contemporary artists whose work builds upon the foundations conceptualized by the Land Artists 50 years later.
