Eric LoPresti “Blooms”

Elizabeth Houston Gallery

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Blooms is a series of large-format watercolors with two alternating subjects: Nevada Test Site, where the US tested its nuclear weapons, and Lewisia rediviva (Bitterroot), an historic flower which grows in the deserts near my home town and at NTS.

These works visualize the apocalyptic sublime, the terrifying, awe-inspiring quality that contemporary, man-made cataclysms share with their historical, natural equivalents. A desert nuclear wasteland and a fragile flower blossom may seem diametrically opposed, but they share a deeper quality: both are meant to be observed. My paintings meditate on the aesthetic and very personal relationship of technology, ecology, history and conflict in the American west.

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from November 16, 2016 to February 12, 2017

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Eric LoPresti

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