Spiral Jetty
Spiral Jetty, by Robert Smithson, is located at Rozel Point in the Great Salt Lake, Utah. Constituted of black basalt rocks and earth, Spiral Jetty forms a coil that stretches out into the red water of the lake.
Sun Tunnels
Sun Tunnels, by Nancy Holt, is in the Great Salt Lake desert near Lucin, Utah. Four large perforated concrete tunnels align with the rising and setting sun on the days of the solstices.
Storm King Wavefield
Storm King Wavefield, by Maya Lin, at the Storm King Art Center in New York State, consists of seven waves of grass-covered earth. Each are about 15-feet tall and 300-feet long.
Double Negative
Double Negative, by Michael Heizer, in Mormon Mesa, Overton Nevada, is made up of two trenches each 50-feet deep and 1,500-feet long.
Lightning Field
Lightning Field, by Walter de Maria, is near Quemado, New Mexico. It’s made of 400 stainless steel poles that average 20-feet tall and are spread over about a 1/2-square-mile.