ST. GEORGE ART
MUSEUM
May 26 through September 8, 2012
Main
Gallery Starry, Starry Night: The Paintings of Serena Supplee
Mezzanine
Gallery Starry, Starry Night, National Parks through the Lens of Wally
Pacholka
Legacy Gallery Great Basin Exteriors: A
Photographic Survey (Nevada Arts Council-opens June 21st) with
Art Conversation on June 21st at 7pm (3rd Thursday Art Conversation
Series)
About 150 years
ago, the West was known as the last frontier in America.
Once the space race began, space was labeled the final frontier. In the exhibits on view this summer, you have a chance to
explore both, as well as America’s best idea, according to Wallace Stegner, our
national parks.
In the Legacy Gallery beginning June 21st, we feature,
The Great Basin from the Nevada Arts Council. Great Basin Exteriors: A Photographic Survey, an exhibition of 30 photographs by
three regional artists – Adam Jahiel, Daniel Cheek and Nolan Preece – which examines loss, change and
abandonment in the American West.
In this exhibit,
the Great Basin is roughly defined as the area between the Wasatch Mountains
along the Idaho and Utah borders and the Sierra Nevada Mountains along the
Nevada and California borders. The three photographers featured in the exhibit
have, independently, concentrated on the documentation of subjects that are
changing in or rapidly disappearing from the Western landscape.
Geologically,
the Great Basin is part of the Basin and Range Province that covers most of
Nevada and more than half of Utah, as well as parts of California, Idaho,
Oregon and Wyoming. Jahiel’s photograph of cowboys in Northern Nevada
poignantly illustrates both this rugged way of life and its marginalization in
contemporary society. Daniel Cheek’s work celebrates the spaciousness of the
Great Basin, which is then juxtaposed with small intrusions in the landscapes
that are indicative of a changing West. Nolan Preece examines the rustic patina
that is diminishing with restoration and development across the Great Basin.
The work of
each photographer reflects a distinct style and technique, perfected during
careers as highly regarded professional artists. Jahiel uses the platinum print
to archive and preserve his images for the future. Cheek works with an 8 x 10
camera to reproduce the rich color of the Great Basin on chromogenic photo
paper. Preece combines large format and digital cameras to produce black and
white and color images of high quality.
This exhibit
was organized by the Nevada Arts Council and is part of the Nevada Touring Initiative
– Traveling Exhibition Program and is funded by the National Endowment, Nevada
State Legislature and Western States Arts Federation. The Nevada Arts Council
is a division of the Department of Tourism and Cultural Affairs.
A special
thanks to the Darrell Armuth and Donna Hellwinkel Collection for its loan of
their Adam Jahiel platinum prints for this exhibition.
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