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Mary Miss

Mary Miss (Born 1944) is active/lives in New York.  Mary Miss is known for Environmental installation, earthworks.

Synthesizing sculpture, architecture and landscaping, Mary Miss is considered a pioneering figure in Earthworks* or Land Art, and the ascendancy of her reputation from the 1970s coincided with the feminist* art movement.  Of her career as a female sculptor and Land Artist, she wrote: "Haven't you noticed that much of the most important sculpture today is being done by women? When I went to school in the sixties there were almost no women sculptors.  Monuments?  We are anti-monument; we want our work to be part of the land, to grow into it and enhance it--not to 'stick up' or dominate it." 

Mary Miss was born in New York City, and during her childhood traveled extensively as her father was in the military.  She earned a B.A. degree in 1966 from the University of California at Santa Barbara; an M.F.A. in 1978 from the Maryland Art Institute, and also studied at the Rinehart School of Sculpture.

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Artist auction records

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