Victoria Sambunaris "Terra Firma"
The Gallery at Hermès
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Victoria Sambunaris's "Terra Firma" explores the upheavals in the landscape of the American West– both geophysical and manmade. This new body of work, created in 2008 and 2009, will be exhibited for the first time in New York. The large scale photographs reveal the physiographical complexity of the country through the lens of a singular artistic exploration of place and time. Sambunaris's research has brought her across America for the last decade. Traveling west with a 5x7 large format camera and in keeping with the tradition of landscape photographers Timothy O'Sullivan, Carleton Watkins, and William Henry Jackson, she has journeyed the country to findthe trains in Nebraska, the pipeline of Alaska, the mines of Nevada, the calderas of Hawaii, and the cave systems in the South. Her most recent works, taken at the Yellowstone hotspot, an active super volcano, and Idaho's Snake River plain, are a natural extension, reflecting on the origins of the earth while rendering its continued evolution, violence, and beauty. As the artist explains, "I am captivated by the idea of how we inhabited our landscapes as we forge ahead in our development. The suggestion of what fills our lives is somehow telling and strangely consoling."
[Image: Victoria Sambunaris "Untitled (Talc Mine Benches, Cameron, MT" (2009) Courtesy of Victoria Sambunaris and Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York]
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from September 08, 2009 to October 09, 2009