Jim Denevan

Angle of Repose

Denevan is an artist, chef, and founder of Outstanding in the Field. Through his land art, Denevan interacts with the earth’s topography to create works of varying scale in sand, earth, and ice. These pieces range from smaller beach compositions to large land works the size of a city. Each is ephemeral in nature, disappearing with the tides, the winds, and the seasonal progressions. In the tables he sets and the land artworks he creates, there is an element of organic impermanence at play.

Denevan has been commissioned to create artworks globally, both in the commercial and artistic space. Documentation of his land drawings have been exhibited at the Vancouver International Sculpture Biennale; the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; MoMA PS1, New York; and the Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, among others. His life and art are the subject of the recently released film Man in the Field (2021). Denevan lives in Santa Cruz, California.