Site specific art

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Photographer Zander Olsen creates amazing optical illusions by wrapping trees with white linen, lining up the ends of the material with the horizon line

German artist Cornelia Konrads creates mind-altering site-specific installations in public spaces, sculpture parks and private gardens across the world. Seeming to defy gravity, where stacked objects like logs, fences, and doorways appear to be suspended in mid-air, her artworks are reinforcing their temporary nature as if the installation is beginning to disintegrate into thin air. […]

Karin van der Molen‘s series ‘Flux’ and ‘A Wave of Nostalgia’ combine a similar element of chairs “pouring out” of a house and flowing into…

Site specific art is art that is placed in a specific spot, in a specific area. The place that the art is put in is intended to be a part of the artwork itself. I think there are a lot of dif…

The Stockholm-based Note Design Studio has completed an outdoor art installation of varying-sized stainless-steel structures set on a wooded hillside, titled ‘Waiting Windows’; a meditation...

Artist Ashley V Blalock crochets enormous red doilies that she then installs in site-specific configurations ranging from galleries to stairwells to trees outside. Her ongoing project, Keeping Up Appearances, began in 2011 and has been installed at museums, galleries, and gardens across the United States. The artist describes the meaning behind Keeping Up Appearances: “Although non-threatening in a domestic setting, in the gallery and at this scale the [doilies] overtake the viewer and cover…

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