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from Auction House Records.
CIRCLE/RECTANGLE 7 (LARGE ROD SERIES)
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Born in Albany, California outside of San Francisco, Walter De Maria became a sculptor noted for his earthworks or "land art". Some of his projects were "Earth Rooms," or interiors filled with dirt, and his most expansive installation work has been "Lightning Field," stainless steel poles arranged in exterior spaces in 1977 on a high plain in southwestern New Mexico.
He earned an M.A. in art at the University of California, Berkeley, where he studied with Bay Area artist David Park. He also developed a friendship with the musician and performance artist, La Monte Young who influenced De Maria to incorporate Zen Buddhist concepts such as the temporary nature of structure, chance decisions, and performance as an event. De Maria and Young took part in Happenings or performance art and other theatrical productions around the Bay Area.
In 1960, De Maria moved to New York and became the drummer for the Velvet Underground music group. He also wrote art essays and took part in more Happenings and multimedia shows. In 1961, a new phase of his career developed as he began making wooden-box sculptures. He and a friend, Robert Whitman, also opened a gallery at 9 Great Jones Street in 1963, and that same year, De Maria had his first solo sculpture exhibition, and this event was held at his gallery. Wood became his favored medium, although he also began working in metal and well as composing music. In 1966, a solo exhibition of his work was held at at Cordier & Ekstrom, New York, and he participated the exhibit, Primary Structures, at the Jewish Museum, New York.
Di Maria has received a number of honors including a Guggenheim Fellowship and the Mather Sculpture Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago.
Source:
http://www.guggenheimcollection.org/site/artist_bio_37.html
"ARTnews"
"Art in America"
De Maria emerged as a leader of the Earthworks movement in 1968 when he filled the Galerie Heiner Friedrich in Munich with dirt. This year, he also made his The Mile Long Drawing in the Desert in the Mojave Desert for Walls in the Desert, a project, originally conceived in 1962, which is to consist of two parallel mile-long walls. In 1968, he also participated in Documenta in Kassel. A major exhibition of De Maria's sculpture was held at the Kunstmuseum Basel in 1972. Earthworks and serial geometric sculpture continue to occupy De Maria in the 1970s: his Three Continent Project was completed in 1972 and the Lightning Field in New Mexico was finished in 1977. That same year, De Maria recreated his Earth Room at the Heiner Friedrich Gallery in New York. The artist lives in New York.
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Walter De Maria is also mentioned in these AskART essays:
Sculptors
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