Exhibit News The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment
September 24, 2011 - January 15, 2012
Nevada Museum of Art
Showcasing photographs that examine human interaction and intervention with environments The Altered Landscape: Photographs of a Changing Environment is the Museum's signature photography collection. A significant exhibition with an accompanying publication, The Altered Landscape represents a milestone for the Museum on the occasion of its 80th Anniversary in 2011.
The exhibition is accompanied by a comprehensive, 288-page deluxe publication published by Skira Rizzoli that examines the collection's roots in the 1970s New Topographics movement and highlights recent photographic acquisitions in this rapidly changing field.
Discovery and Doom: Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Robert Falcon Scott's successful and doomed expedition to the South Pole
Photographs by Herbert Ponting and Joan Myers
November 25, 2011 - January 30, 2012
Andrew Smith Gallery, Santa Fe
Blog I’ve begun posting images from recent shoots, plus material relevant to past work in Antarctica and volcanic and geothermal sites. http://joanmyers.tumblr.com/.
Recent Work Fire and ice are animating forces for our planet, constantly changing its surface and atmosphere. We expect, we need our planet to be firm beneath our feet. We forget that its surface slides, subducts, and transforms. Its molten inner nature erupts as volcanoes or triggers earthquakes. Its icy poles melt and then reform over geologic time, dramatically changing sea level. A stable earth, whatever we would like to think, is an illusion. My most recent travels in search of volcanic places with myths and stories took me to the Caribbean Islands of Guadeloupe and Montserrat, as well as to several volcanic sites in California.
