Stan Herd pioneered the art form known as representational crop art – a method of creating images of people, landscapes and brands by digging, disking, plowing and otherwise manipulating acres of green space.

• Stan Herd is the preeminent representational earthworks artist in the world.
• Herd was born in 1950 into a farming family in the small rural community of Protection, Kansas.
• Always had an intimate relationship with the land that’s dovetailed with his art.
• Attended Wichita State University on an art scholarship.
• Herd’s earthworks projects have been created around the world, including England, Cuba, Australia and the United States.
• Selected as an Absolut Artist for the highly successful “Absolut Artist” series. “Absolut Landmark” ran in Rolling Stone, Esquire, Interview and Art Forum magazines.
• In 1994, created a one-acre image, “Countryside,” on Donald Trump’s property in NYC.
• Created “Rosa Blanca” in Cuba – an image of a white rose to honor 19th Century poet José Martí to help reestablish relations between the U.S. and Cuba.
• A book about his earthworks, “Crop Art and Other Earthworks,” (Henry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers, 1994) details Herd’s artistic journey through stunning pictures and stories.

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