The road runs to the north, parallel to the eastern edge of the mesa where Double Negative is located (overlooking the Virgin River).
After traveling 2.6 miles, keep your eyes to the left and make your first possible left (at 2.8 miles) onto a small dirt road, which is easy to miss. When you reach the top of the mesa, note mileage and continue straight across the mesa (do not go onto the immediate right or left road).ħ. Proceed up the road to the top of the Western edge of the mesa. Continue on Cooper Street to Airport Road.ĥ. Police Station (on left) and the Post Office (on right).ģ. This will be a sharp left shortly after the Maverick Gas Station, Moapa Valley Community Center and Las Vegas Met. Once on Overton, turn left onto Cooper Street, which leads to the Overton Airport. Take Interstate 15 North past Las Vegas to Route 169 (exit #93) to Overton.Ģ. Use caution, avoid traveling alone, and notify an outside party of your departure and estimated arrival time for safety.ġ. Prepare for conditions of extreme heat with no shade (especially in the summer months)-always bring water, a hat, and sunscreen. A four-wheel drive vehicle is recommended under current road conditions. The cuts face each other across an indentation in the plateaus’ scalloped perimeter, forming a continuous image, a thick linear volume that bridges and combines the “negative” space between them.įrom Los Angeles, allow seven hours for travel and please note the last 45 minutes is on dirt roads. Double Negative consists of two long straight trenches, 30 feet wide and 50 feet deep, cut into the “tabletop” of Mormon Mesa, displacing 240,000 tons of desert sandstone. The land art movement first appeared in the late 1960s and served to challenge the location, material, size, and temporal existence of a work of art. Location: Mormon Mesa, Overton, Nevada (80 miles from Las Vegas)ĭouble Negative was constructed by Michael Heizer in the Nevada desert in 1969 and remains one of the few still extant examples of what are commonly referred to as earthworks, land art, or environmental sculpture. The Los Angeles Times, "New MOCA Acquisition Is A Hole In The Ground", Decemby William WilsonĪdmission to Double Negative by artist Michael Heizer is always free. "There is nothing there, yet it is still a sculpture." Double Negative (1969) by artist Michael Heizer is on view 24/7, 365 days a year.
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