Keith Milow

Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London

E.J. Power

Sale, Christie’s South Kensington, 24 November 2005, lot 244

Private Collection, U.K.

Like his American contemporaries Robert Smithson and Michael Heizer, English artist Keith Milow was inspired by the industrial American landscape. Particularly entranced by images of trucks excavating tons of earth and rock and the vast oil containers set within lunar-like scenery, Milow saw these images as being equivalents to 'monuments of antiquity'. Unlike Smithson and Heizer, however, who were able to explore these areas first hand, Milow's interest was inspired by the American scientific journal Scientific America, often incorporating its pages into the artworks themselves.