Artists and "Place"

As I begin the research portion of this project, I am curious about the many types of relationships that have been formed between contemporary artists and places. Here are a few selected models:
1) Artists that convey a "sense of place" through their work combining a description of the physical landscape with the artists memories/experience of that place.
2) Artists whose work is to rebuild or reclaim a place. Their art work is also an act of conservation.
3) Artists who connect a place to a certain historical event or moment, that may reiterate or challenge pre-existing "grand narratives."
4) Artists who reveal how a "sense of place" can become commodified.
5) Artists who find or create borderline places. Places not easily recognized, mapped or preserved.
6) Artists whose works is informed by the place in which they live, but more specifically how this shapes their identity.
7)Artists who explore place as a psychoanalytic construct, fixating on the separation from the maternal body.
With many of the artists whose work comes to mind within the realm of these loosely defined categories what is shared is a sense that the function of the resulting artwork is to enable the artist to establish a connection to a place, while also leaving space for the viewer to enter into their own relationship with the work of art(possibly as a site in itself) and a place. This relationship may be affable, alienating, or abject.