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Owen Gump: Desert Works

CAE1714

Summary Note

Photographer Owen Gump began to photograph TRIC from the ground in 2016 as part of an ongoing series that examines the architectural typologies and landscapes of industrial centers. The archive currently consists of one photograph.

Biographical Note

Owen Gump is a Bay Area-based photographer who has been photographing the American West for more than a decade. He has been an artist-in-residence at both CLUI’s Wendover facility and Playa in southern Oregon. Gump grew up in California, attended the University of Washington, and then in 2002 applied for a DAAD fellowship to study art at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. He then studied at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzeig where he received his diploma. Subsequently, he settled in Cologne for a few years, then Berlin.

Scope and Content

Photographer Owen Gump was taken to TRIC by William Fox in 2016. They had previously met in 2007 at the CLUI Wendover residence. Gump began to photograph TRIC from the ground as part of an ongoing series that examines the architectural typologies and landscapes of industrial centers. The first images in the series were exhibited in Feirburg in 2017. The archive currently consists of one photograph.

Arrangement

This archive is organized into three folders sorted by photographic project.

Inclusive Dates

2007-2017

Bulk Dates

2017

Quantity / Extent

19 Items

Language

English, German

Related Publications

Baltz, Lewis. The new industrial parks near Irvine, California. Rochester, NY: Castelli Graphics; Distributed by Light Impressions, 1974.

Beacham, Jon, and Michael Heizer. Coyotes, Silver Slippers, Pumas, Mesquite ... and Word List Extracted & Edited: Selective List of Uses for Welding Electrodes: Michael Heizer. Tivoli, NY: The Brother In Elysium, 2015.

Camfield, William A. Michael Heizer: 45°, 90°, 180°: A Sculpture for Rice University. Houston, TX: Rice University, Farish Gallery, School of Architecture, 1985.

Celant, Germano. Michael Heizer. Milan, Italy: Fondazione Prada, 1997.

Durham Press. Michael Heizer, Tom Slaughter, Ray Charles White, Scott Kilgour, John Giorno, Robert Harms, Daniel Villeneuve, Beatriz Milhazes. Durham, Pa: Durham Press, 1996.

Felix, Zdenek. Michael Heizer. Essen, Germany, Otterlo, Netherlands: Museum Folkwang; Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, 1979.

Fox, William L., The Void, The Grid, & The Sign: Traversing the Great Basin. Salt Lake City, Utah: The University of Utah Press, 2000.

Gorgoni, Gianfranco. The New Avant-Garde: Issues for the Art of the Seventies. New York, NY: Praeger, 1972.

Hedger, Michael Albert. Larger than Life: Size, Scale and the Imaginary in the Work of Land Artists Michael Heizer, Walter De Maria and Dennis Oppenheim. Sidney, N.S.W.: University of New South Wales. Art & Design, 2014.

Heizer, Michael. Michael Heizer. Innsbruck, Austria: Galerie im Taxispalais, 1977.

Heizer, Michael. Michael Heizer. London, England: Waddington Galleries, 1990.

Heizer, Michael. Michael Heizer: Actual Size. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1971.

Heizer, Michael. Michael Heizer: Double Negative. New York, NY, Los Angeles, CA: Rizzoli; Museum of Contemporary Art, 1991.

Heizer, Michael. Michael Heizer: New Sculpture. New York, NY: M. Knoedler & Co., 1988.

Heizer, Michael. Michael Heizer: New Sculpture. Tokyo, Japan: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1988.

Heizer, Michael. Michael Heizer: Photographic and Actual Works. Detroit, MI: Detroit Institute of the Arts, 1971.

Heizer, Michael. Michael Heizer: Sculpture in Reverse. Los Angeles CA: Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, 1984.

Heizer, Michael. Michael Heizer—Dragged Mass Geometric. New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985.

Kimmelman, Michael. The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa. New York, NY: Penguin Press, 2005.

Levitated Mass: The Story of Michael Heizer’s Monolithic Sculpture. Directed by Doug Pray. New York, NY: First Run Features, 2014.

Lewis, David P. The Size of City: Michael Heizer’s Masterpiece as Architecture. Cardiff, Wales: Dissertation, Cardiff University, 2010.

McGill, Douglas C. Michael Heizer: Effigy Tumuli: The Reemergence of Ancient Mound Building. New York, NY: H.N. Abrams, 1990.

Vander Weg, Kara. Ed., Michael Heizer: Alters. New York, NY: Gagosian Gallery, 2016.

Container Listing:

  • ARCH-FILE 63-1

    • Folder 2 Tahoe Regional Industrial Center, 2016 – 2017
    • Folder 3 Displaced/Replaced Mass, 2017
    • Folder 1 Promontory, 2007