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Andy Goldsworthy
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An icon of British sculpture, photography, arrangement and installation, Andy Goldsworthy is most often associated with the Land Art movement. Creating both monumental and unassuming outdoor sculptures from found natural materials, Goldsworthy evokes the works of artists such as Robert Smithson and Walter de Maria, in addition to the carefully constructed geometry of Modernist sculpture. Upon completion of each work, he photographs the piece and then allows nature to take its course—Goldsworthy considers decay, destruction and movement a part of his process. Like Smithson, the British artist draws on patterns found in nature—spirals, waves, foams, tessellations, and fractals.
In addition to his work “in situ,” Goldsworthy has exhibited temporary museum installations at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, The Metropolitan Museum or Art, New York and The Tate, Liverpool, among others. Goldsworthy's other large-scale installations in the United States include Garden of Stones (2003) at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, Three Cairns (2001-2003) at the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, Neuberger Cairn (2001) at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, West Coast Cairn (2002) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Stone River (2001) at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California and Storm King Wall …
An icon of British sculpture, photography, arrangement and installation, Andy Goldsworthy is most often associated with the Land Art movement. Creating both monumental and unassuming outdoor sculptures from found natural materials, Goldsworthy evokes the works of artists such as Robert Smithson and Walter de Maria, in addition to the carefully constructed geometry of Modernist sculpture. Upon completion of each work, he photographs the piece and then allows nature to take its course—Goldsworthy considers decay, destruction and movement a part of his process. Like Smithson, the British artist draws on patterns found in nature—spirals, waves, foams, tessellations, and fractals.
In addition to his work “in situ,” Goldsworthy has exhibited temporary museum installations at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, The Metropolitan Museum or Art, New York and The Tate, Liverpool, among others. Goldsworthy's other large-scale installations in the United States include Garden of Stones (2003) at the Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York, Three Cairns (2001-2003) at the Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, Neuberger Cairn (2001) at the Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, West Coast Cairn (2002) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Stone River (2001) at Stanford University, Palo Alto, California and Storm King Wall (1999) at the Storm King Art Center in Mountainville, New York.
Born 1956
Hometown Cheshire, United Kingdom
Lives and Works Scotland
Education
BA Preston Polytechnic (now the University of Central Lancashire), Preston, Lancashire,1975–78
Bradford College of Art, Bradford, UK, 1974–75
Works Available for Purchase
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