Art + Environment Exhibits
Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds
August 9 – October 5, 2008
Feature Gallery South
The Nevada Museum of Art will present Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds —the first major solo museum exhibition in the United States by British artist Chris Drury. One of Great Britain’s most prolific and respected artists, Drury explores conceptual issues arising from the interplay between nature and culture. On exhibit from August 9 through October 5, 2008, the feature exhibition includes paintings, prints, sculpture, and video drawn from two of Drury’s most notable ongoing series: Mushrooms and Clouds. The exhibition also includes new works produced in partnership with the For-Site Foundation in Nevada City, CA and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno,
NV. The new work created for Mushrooms | Clouds also refers to the complex legacy and continued presence of nuclear activity in the American West.
Dan Goods: The Hidden Light
July 12 – November 16, 2008
Media Gallery
Dan Goods, the Visual Strategist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), applies some of the complex principles studied at JPL to a multi-media installation titled The Hidden Light. Presented in the Museum’s Media Gallery, this installation uses video projections to reveal imagery inside the silhouettes of gallery visitors—a process that communicates JPL’s investigation of “blocking” star-light in order to see small planets. The Hidden Light is accompanied by audio compositions by Dominic
Massaro.
Margarita Cabrera: Hummers
July 19 – November 9, 2008
Small Works Gallery
Margarita Cabrera’s vibrantly-colored sport utility vehicles challenge viewers to engage in debates about Mexican immigration, border relations, and the politics of the American Dream. Made from pliable, vinyl fabric with visible, hand-stitched threads, Cabrera’s Hummers pay homage to the thousands of laborers working in multi-national assembly plants near the U.S.-Mexico border—where engine parts for Hummer vehicles are made. Cabrera re-envisions the Hummer as a flaccid, vulnerable object that implicitly questions the power, excess, and wealth that, to some, signifies the American Dream. Cabrera was born in Monterey, Mexico and lives and works in El Paso, Texas.
Terry Falke: Observations in an Occupied Wilderness
August 23, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Altered Landscape Gallery
Terry Falke’s body of wry, lyrical photographs forms an intimate and idiosyncratic portrait of the American Southwest. By emphasizing the unique beauty of the region’s landscape, Falke makes the incongruous and sometimes amusing artifacts of human presence more apparent. With a sense of humor and a remarkable ability to craft acute cultural and visual connections, his work reveals a paradise altered by human behavior. As personal as they are provocative, the large-format photographs of Observations in an Occupied Wilderness are the record of Falke’s deeply felt experience of the place he calls home.
Some Dry Space: Michael Light
September 13, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Hawkins Contemporary Gallery
Michael Light’s landscape photographs document—and thereby provoke—human dialogue with nature. His images are at once scathing and celebratory, exploring the complex and ever-evolving relationship between contemporary American culture and the environment. Concerned both with the politics of that relationship and the seductive power of landscapes, Light’s work deals in paradoxes that traverse the
nebulous terrain where beauty, horror, wonder, and fear converge. The resulting large-format aerial images address themes of mapping, vertigo, geology, and human impact on the land. Like all of Light’s work, these images provide a beautiful yet thought-provoking glimpse into American traditions of and exploration—the insatiable human need to pursue the unknown.
Katie Holten: Atlas of Memory
September 27, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Feature Gallery North
A native of Ireland, Katie Holten creates artworks that bring people together to investigate human impact on the natural environment. Often made from recycled materials, her thoughtful renderings of maps, plants, and ecological phenomena encourage dialogue on issues ranging from biodiversity to global warming. Atlas of Memory includes a selection of Holten’s colorful globes, as well as new drawings from metropolitan cities around the world—including Reno. Holten represented Ireland in the 2003 Venice Biennale.
Body of a House: Robert Beckmann
Ongoing
Installation Gallery
As a young boy during the Cold War era, Robert Beckmann remembers watching documentary film footage of the United States military testing a 16-kiloton nuclear bomb nicknamed “Annie” at the Nevada Test Site. Beckmann painted this series of large-scale iodine-hued paintings titled The Body of a House in 1993. His imagery is based on still frames taken from the films he saw as a child, and the eight sequential scenes represent a mere 2.33 seconds of real time. The darkened skies and mysterious eerie glow in Beckmann’s paintings are a frightening reminder of the devastating effects of nuclear explosion.
August 9 – October 5, 2008
Feature Gallery South
The Nevada Museum of Art will present Chris Drury: Mushrooms | Clouds —the first major solo museum exhibition in the United States by British artist Chris Drury. One of Great Britain’s most prolific and respected artists, Drury explores conceptual issues arising from the interplay between nature and culture. On exhibit from August 9 through October 5, 2008, the feature exhibition includes paintings, prints, sculpture, and video drawn from two of Drury’s most notable ongoing series: Mushrooms and Clouds. The exhibition also includes new works produced in partnership with the For-Site Foundation in Nevada City, CA and the Desert Research Institute (DRI) in Reno,
NV. The new work created for Mushrooms | Clouds also refers to the complex legacy and continued presence of nuclear activity in the American West.
Dan Goods: The Hidden Light
July 12 – November 16, 2008
Media Gallery
Dan Goods, the Visual Strategist at the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), applies some of the complex principles studied at JPL to a multi-media installation titled The Hidden Light. Presented in the Museum’s Media Gallery, this installation uses video projections to reveal imagery inside the silhouettes of gallery visitors—a process that communicates JPL’s investigation of “blocking” star-light in order to see small planets. The Hidden Light is accompanied by audio compositions by Dominic
Massaro.
Margarita Cabrera: Hummers
July 19 – November 9, 2008
Small Works Gallery
Margarita Cabrera’s vibrantly-colored sport utility vehicles challenge viewers to engage in debates about Mexican immigration, border relations, and the politics of the American Dream. Made from pliable, vinyl fabric with visible, hand-stitched threads, Cabrera’s Hummers pay homage to the thousands of laborers working in multi-national assembly plants near the U.S.-Mexico border—where engine parts for Hummer vehicles are made. Cabrera re-envisions the Hummer as a flaccid, vulnerable object that implicitly questions the power, excess, and wealth that, to some, signifies the American Dream. Cabrera was born in Monterey, Mexico and lives and works in El Paso, Texas.
Terry Falke: Observations in an Occupied Wilderness
August 23, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Altered Landscape Gallery
Terry Falke’s body of wry, lyrical photographs forms an intimate and idiosyncratic portrait of the American Southwest. By emphasizing the unique beauty of the region’s landscape, Falke makes the incongruous and sometimes amusing artifacts of human presence more apparent. With a sense of humor and a remarkable ability to craft acute cultural and visual connections, his work reveals a paradise altered by human behavior. As personal as they are provocative, the large-format photographs of Observations in an Occupied Wilderness are the record of Falke’s deeply felt experience of the place he calls home.
Some Dry Space: Michael Light
September 13, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Hawkins Contemporary Gallery
Michael Light’s landscape photographs document—and thereby provoke—human dialogue with nature. His images are at once scathing and celebratory, exploring the complex and ever-evolving relationship between contemporary American culture and the environment. Concerned both with the politics of that relationship and the seductive power of landscapes, Light’s work deals in paradoxes that traverse the
nebulous terrain where beauty, horror, wonder, and fear converge. The resulting large-format aerial images address themes of mapping, vertigo, geology, and human impact on the land. Like all of Light’s work, these images provide a beautiful yet thought-provoking glimpse into American traditions of and exploration—the insatiable human need to pursue the unknown.
Katie Holten: Atlas of Memory
September 27, 2008 – January 4, 2009
Feature Gallery North
A native of Ireland, Katie Holten creates artworks that bring people together to investigate human impact on the natural environment. Often made from recycled materials, her thoughtful renderings of maps, plants, and ecological phenomena encourage dialogue on issues ranging from biodiversity to global warming. Atlas of Memory includes a selection of Holten’s colorful globes, as well as new drawings from metropolitan cities around the world—including Reno. Holten represented Ireland in the 2003 Venice Biennale.
Body of a House: Robert Beckmann
Ongoing
Installation Gallery
As a young boy during the Cold War era, Robert Beckmann remembers watching documentary film footage of the United States military testing a 16-kiloton nuclear bomb nicknamed “Annie” at the Nevada Test Site. Beckmann painted this series of large-scale iodine-hued paintings titled The Body of a House in 1993. His imagery is based on still frames taken from the films he saw as a child, and the eight sequential scenes represent a mere 2.33 seconds of real time. The darkened skies and mysterious eerie glow in Beckmann’s paintings are a frightening reminder of the devastating effects of nuclear explosion.
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