The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment Landscape Futures: Instruments, Devices, and Architectural Inventio
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2011 SEASON OF ART + ENVIRONMENT EXHIBITIONS The Altered Landscape celebrates the institution’s signature The Altered Landscape: photography collection that examines human interaction and Photographs of a Changing intervention with environments. While the collection Environment represents a diversity of artists, techniques, visual styles, subjects, and ideological positions, it is unified by two basic September 24, 2011 – January 8, 2012 principles: a concern for inspiring dialogue about the impact of human activity on landscapes and an effort to depart from idealized notions of scenic beauty and pristine wilderness that were dominant in the early twentieth century. Among the 150 artists included in the exhibition are Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Edward Burtynsky, Fandra Chang, Stéphane Courturier, Pipo Nguyen-duy, Otobong Nkanga, Amy Stein, and Kim Stringfellow. The exhibition will be accompanied by a 288-page publication co-published by Skira Rizzoli and the Nevada Museum of Art and distributed by Random House. Major Sponsor: Carol Franc Buck Foundation; Sponsors: National Endowment for the Arts, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Wilhelm and Elke Hoppe Living Trust; Generous Supporters: The Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation, RBC Wealth Management, Atlantis Casino Resort and Spa, Daniel Greenberg and Susan Steinhauser, Stremmel Gallery, Maureen Mullarkey, Kathie Bartlett; Additional Support: Cultural Services of the French Embassy, New York; Grants for equipment and technology from the following organizations also made this project possible: The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), Western States Arts Federation (WESTAF) with the Nevada Arts Council and the National Endowment for the Arts. This exhibition explores how landscapes, and our perceptions Landscape Futures: of them, can be transformed by technology and design. Specifically, it investigates shifting terrains of architectural Instruments, Devices, and invention, where the construction of new spatial devices on a Architectural Inventions variety of scales, from the inhabitable to the portable, can uncover previously inaccessible aspects of built and natural August 13, 2011 – February 12, 2012 environments. The devices on display—and the traces they reveal—will thus demonstrate that the landscape around us is like sheet music: an interpretive repository of bewildering variation that can be captured and made visible (even audible) through the perceptual instruments and recording devices that we invent. The exhibition will be an extraordinary mix of large- scale installations, technical prototypes, wall-sized graphics, and portable devices, each of which will provide visitors with unexpected access to the invisible—and often fantastical— streams of data constantly generated by the landscapes around us. This exhibition is guest curated by Geoff Manaugh. Sponsored by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Arts. Ansel Adams Lewis Baltz Virginia Beahan and Laura McPhee Marilyn Bridges Winter Sunrise, Sierra Nevada Lemmon Valley, Looking North, The Blue Lagoon, Iceland Blythe Site #2, Blythe, California from Lone Pine, California from the Nevada portfolio 1988 1983 1944 1977 Color dye coupler print Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print 18⅝ x 23⅜ inches 11 x 14 inches 9 x 14 inches 8 x 10 inches Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection Carol Franc Buck Collection, Carol Franc Buck Collection Carol Franc Buck Collection Robert Adams Lewis Baltz Bernd and Hilla Becher Drex Brooks Burning Oil Sludge, Night Construction, Reno, Ansichten eines Kalksilos in Ruby Valley Treaty Site, Nevada Boulder County, Colorado from the Nevada portfolio Duisburg–Ruhrort Suite 1990 1974 1977 1974 Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print Lithographs 14 x 20⅞ inches 5 x 7 inches 8 x 10 inches 15¾ x 11⅞ inches (each) Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, Gift of the artist Carol Franc Buck Collection Carol Franc Buck Collection Carol Franc Buck Collection Robert Adams Lewis Baltz Olaf Otto Becker Jeff Brouws Colorado Springs, Colorado Element No. 10 Point 660 Interstate 40, Needles, CA 1968 from the Near Reno portfolio 2008 1995 Gelatin silver print 1986 Archival pigment print C-print 6 x 6 inches Gelatin silver print 46 x 54 inches 18 x 18 inches Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, 8 x 10 inches Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection Carol Franc Buck Collection Carol Franc Buck Collection Robert Adams Subhankar Banerjee Peter Bialobrzeski Laurie Brown Dead Palms, Partially Uprooted, Known and Unknown Tracks (Teshekpuk Lake Transition #20, from the series Periphery #12, Aliso Viejo, California Ontario, California Wetland, Alaska), from the series Oil and the Geese Lost in Transition 1995 1983 2006/2010 2006 Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print Digital chromogenic print C-print 8 x 20 inches 8 x 11 inches 68 x 86 inches 38½ x 49¼ inches Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection, Carol Franc Buck Collection Carol Franc Buck Collection Carol Franc Buck Collection Partial gift of the artist Stuart Allen Olivo Barbieri Barbara Bosworth Laurie Brown Cache Creek Levee Line site specific_NYC 07 (1) Franconia Notch, Echo Lake, White Mountains, Hotel at Man-Made Lake Las Vegas 1997 2007 New Hampshire 2003 Gelatin silver print Inkjet print 1991 Lightjet print 22½ x 22½ inches 48 x 60 inches Gelatin silver print 9½ x 29 inches Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, 9 x 30½ inches Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection Carol Franc Buck Collection The Altered Landscape, Gift of the artist Carol Franc Buck Collection 1 Dean Burton Fandra Chang Robert Dawson Joe Deal Terry Evans Geoffrey Fricker Andy Goldsworthy Roderik Henderson Linear (0647) Still Gleaming Mirrors of Hope (Derived from San Francisco’s Entire Water Supply Flows Santa Ana Winds, Riverside, California, Gravel Pit North of Kanopolis, Kansas Inner Tubes on Labor Day, Sacramento River Red River, Jemez, New Mexico Bad Lands VI 2006 “Eyewire Images: Green Industry E007966”) Through This Pipe, Near Mather, California from the series Subdividing the Inland Basin 1991 1999 1999 2002/2005 Archival pigment print 2001 1992 1983 C-print Gelatin silver print Unique cibachrome print Gelatin silver print 67⅛ x 44 inches Fuji Crystal Archive on Plexiglas Gelatin silver print Gelatin silver print 20 x 16 inches 18 x 22 inches 66 x 23 inches 23½ x 36⅝ inches Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, 26 x 78½ inches 13½ x 17½ inches 11¼ x 14¼ inches Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, Gift of the artist The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection, Partial and promised gift of Ian and Sari Rogoff Gift of the artist in memory of Andre Henderson Carol Franc Buck Collection Carol Franc Buck Collection Carol Franc Buck Collection Partial gift of the artist Edward Burtynsky William Christenberry Robert Dawson Joe Deal Terry Evans Lee Friedlander Emmet Gowin Todd Hido Nickel Tailings #31, Sudbury, Ontario Blue Trailer, Near Demopolis, Alabama Spillway, Lake Berryessa, California Sunset Beach, California, Star of David, Smoky Hill Bombing Range, Las Vegas, Nevada Pivot Agriculture, Washington Untitled #2479-A 1996 1977/2000 1986 from the series Beach Cities Saline County, Kansas 2002/2006 1987/1993 1999 Chromogenic print Chromogenic print Gelatin silver print 1978 1990 Gelatin silver print Toned gelatin silver print Chromogenic print 23¾ x 34¾ inches 3¼ x 5 inches 10⅝ x 18⅜ inches Gelatin silver print C-print 20 x 16 inches 9½ x 9⅝ inches 38 x 30 inches Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, 11⅛ x 11⅛ inches 14½ x 14½ inches Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, The Altered Landscape, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape,