Nancy Holt

Nancy Holt

MIRIAM AND IRA D. WALLACH ART GALLERY

Standing tall in black aluminum at twenty feet, Nancy Holt's monumental outdoor sculpture Solar Rotary, 1995, comprises a swirling design that casts tribal tattoo-like shadows on a plaza's grounds at the University of South Florida, Tampa. Beneath the work (which I remember fondly from when I was a teen) and the typically oppressive midday sun is a bench, cradling one of the most interesting objects to be found in the area - a 4.5-billion-year-old meteorite, discovered in Miami-Dade County. Holt's long-standing interest in astronomical themes, so overt in this example, seemed to loom large in an excellent survey of her early …