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For more than 30 years, Julie Bargmann, a landscape architect and founder of DIRT Studio (Dump It Right There) in Charlottesville, Virginia, has focus
Felix Gonzalez-Torres, original name Félix González-Torres, (born Nov. 26, 1957, Guáimaro, Cuba—died Jan. 9, 1996, Miami, Fla., U.S.), Cuban-born American sculptor, photographer, and conceptual artist known for work in a variety of media that addresses issues of identity, desire, originality, loss, the metaphor of journey, and the private versus the public domain. Like many artists of the 1980s, Gonzalez-Torres used the postmodern strategy of appropriating ready-made motifs and objects to create his art, thereby challenging the idea of the unique art object that was so much a hallmark of...
Bargmann cited Robert Smithson and Eva Hesse as influences and pointed to a road trip as an early turning point in her career, saying that afterward she “launched into a holistic approach to my work.” The University of Virginia School of Architecture professor and D.I.R.T. (Dump It Right...
The landscape architect Julie Bargmann focuses on contaminated and forgotten urban sites. The results are both beautiful and socially conscious.