People should go to the works and experience them. Because just having an idea or picture in mind is absolutely not the experience that's necessary. Even just landing in Albuquerque or Salt Lake City or Las Vegas was immediately part… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
I opened with Edward Kienholz's The Beanery, and that's such a controversial piece that I think that brought people right away. It was a room-size work that one walked into. It was a bar with Kienholz-type figures sitting and drinking and talking - all life-size characters in a life-size setting. The exhibition was covered in Time, Newsweek, and Life, so… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share
Quite honestly, even as a woman dealer, I really wasn't interested in masculinity or femininity as such. What was important to me was the… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
I think that Walter De Maria's Lightning Field, Michael Heizer's City, and Charles Ross's work in Star Axis New Mexico , all three will… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
I remember when I went to a gallery in Paris at one point, they had drawings of earthworks set in different places. I asked the person sitting at the gallery desk where these works were - where in France they could be found. She looked at me in horror as if I'd asked something completely insane. She said, "Well, of… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share
The gallery closed its doors in 1971. I could no longer psychologically handle the needs of 12 artists. I cared about all of them,… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
What's happening in the larger world always influences art. When I first started the gallery in 1959, one of the first things I learned… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
I think the four land artists I showed all worked within a few years of each other. And they were standard bearers, I suppose,… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
Art wasn't for selling. Actually, we once did have an offer on Double Negative. Things could be sold actually - everything could be for… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
I think Michael Heizer and Walter De Maria had a love-hate relationship because they both had a lot in common. But inevitably one would… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
I didn't know Michael Heizer until I was preparing for my "Earthworks" show in 1968, and somebody called and told me to look at… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
I remember very vividly. I was here in New York. Nancy Holt called me and - I feel unhappy thinking about it - she… — Virginia Dwan Copy Share Image
