Walter De Maria

Walter De Maria was born in Albany, California, in 1935. He died in Los Angeles in 2013.

Art

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A wooden rectangular box is vertically placed on a wooden floor in a white room. — Walter De Maria

4' x 8' Box, 1961
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Small aluminum sphere atop an aluminum tower on the left side of an aluminum platform. — Walter De Maria

Column with Ball on Top, 1965
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Framed, off-white sheet of paper shaped as an elongated pentagon with a smaller elongated pentagon drawn near the center. — Walter De Maria

Gothic Shaped Drawing (Red), 1965
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Small aluminum tower on left side of an aluminum platform. — Walter De Maria

Palladio, 1966
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Stainless steel spikes in a five by three grid protrude upward from a stainless steel base on the floor of a gallery space. — Walter De Maria

Bed of Spikes, 1968–69
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A black and white film still of a grainy black background with white text in a narrow font that reads — Walter De Maria

Hard Core, 1969
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Several tall metal poles are vertically placed around a vegetative desert landscape with a blue sky. — Walter De Maria

35-Pole Lightning Field, 1974
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A square silver plaque featuring a grid of gold dots lies flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

Gold Meters, 1975–76
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A square silver plaque featuring a grid of silver dots lies flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

Silver Meters, 1975–76
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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Twelve pairs of metal circles and squares laid flat on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Equal Area Series, 1976–77
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A white room filled halfway with dirt, entry is blocked by a glass barrier. — Walter De Maria

The New York Earth Room, 1977
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Tall silver poles sticking up out of a grassy landscape, with purple storm clouds in the sky. — Walter De Maria

The Lightning Field, 1977
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A grassy park featuring four red-dirt paths that intersect at a square silver plate flush to the ground. — Walter De Maria

The Vertical Earth Kilometer, 1977
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Five vertical columns of sections of brass rods on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria

The Broken Kilometer, 1979
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A series of many white hexagonal poles are horizontally placed on a red carpet that spans the length of a large white room with a wooden floor. — Walter De Maria

360˚ I Ching / 64 Sculptures, 1981
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Placeholder — Walter De Maria

360˚ I Ching / 64 Sculptures (black), 1981/2019
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Events

Two vintage Chevrolet pickup trucks, one red, one black, in an open gallery space with a row of large windows in the background. Placed vertically in the trucks' flatbeds are circular, square, and triangular polished-stainless-steel rods. — Dia Talks

Brett Littman on Walter De Maria

Saturday, June 9, 2018, 2 pm, Dia Beacon
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Exhibitions and Projects

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Five vertical columns of sections of brass rods on a wood floor. — Site

Walter De Maria, The Broken Kilometer

393 West Broadway, New York
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Tall silver poles sticking up out of a grassy landscape, with purple storm clouds in the sky. — Site

Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field

Western New Mexico
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A white room filled halfway with dirt, entry is blocked by a glass barrier. — Site

Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room

141 Wooster Street, New York
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A grassy park featuring four red-dirt paths that intersect at a square silver plate flush to the ground. — Site

Walter De Maria, The Vertical Earth Kilometer

Friedrichsplatz Park
Kassel, Germany
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A flat outline of a circle next to a flat outlone of a square, both in shiny stainless steel, rest on a cement floor with a white wall in the background. — Exhibition

Walter De Maria

June 20, 2019–February 6, 2022, Dia Beacon
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Two vintage Chevrolet pickup trucks, one red, one black, in an open gallery space with a row of large windows in the background. Placed vertically in the trucks' flatbeds are circular, square, and triangular polished-stainless-steel rods. — Exhibition

Walter De Maria: Truck Trilogy

September 22, 2017–June 3, 2019, Dia Beacon
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DEM_Shot_6_empty_Photo Bill Jacobson — Exhibition

Walter De Maria

January 14, 2017–June 3, 2019, Dia Beacon
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A series of many white hexagonal poles are horizontally placed on a red carpet that spans the length of a large white room with a wooden floor. — Exhibition

Walter De Maria

May 7, 2016–January 12, 2019, Dia Beacon
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Books

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Artists on Walter De Maria

Artists on Walter De Maria is the second installment in a series culled from Dia Art Foundation’s Artists on Artists lectures, focused on the work of artist Walter De Maria. It features contributions from Richard Aldrich, Jeanne Dunning, Guillermo Faivovich and Nicolás Goldberg, and Terry Winters.

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Walter De Maria: The Lightning Field

Edited by Stephen Hoban, Alexis Lowry, and Jessica Morgan. Contributions by John Cliett, Walter De Maria, Robert Fosdick, and Jessica Morgan

Watch & Listen

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Lars Nittve and Jessica Morgan on Walter De Maria

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Brett Littman on Walter De Maria

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Terry Winters on Walter De Maria's The Lightning Field

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Richard Aldrich on Walter De Maria

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Jeanne Dunning on Walter De Maria and Robert Smithson

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Faivovich & Goldberg on Walter De Maria

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Jane McFadden on Walter De Maria

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jane mcfadden - dia talks — Jane McFadden on Walter De Maria
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Aldrich-maria — Richard Aldrich on Walter De Maria
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aoa littman de maria — Brett Littman on Walter De Maria
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dia talks nittve morgan de maria — Lars Nittve and Jessica Morgan on Walter De Maria
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Explore

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Five vertical columns of sections of brass rods on a wood floor. — Walter De Maria, The Broken Kilometer
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Tall silver poles sticking up out of a grassy landscape, with purple storm clouds in the sky. — Walter De Maria, The Lightning Field
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A white room filled halfway with dirt, entry is blocked by a glass barrier. — Walter De Maria, The New York Earth Room
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A grassy park featuring four red-dirt paths that intersect at a square silver plate flush to the ground. — Walter De Maria, The Vertical Earth Kilometer
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