New River near Brawley, from Greetings from the Salton Sea, Kim Stringfellow, 2001.
I have a photograph part of LACMA’s permanent photography collection from Greetings from the Salton Sea on exhibit in Nature on Notice: Contemporary Art and Ecology on display from December 21, 2024–August 2, 2025 at LACMA’s Charles White Elementary School Gallery located at 2401 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90057. Hours: Saturdays 1-4 pm. This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and is part of the Getty’s PST: Art & Science Collide exhibition series.
From LACMA’s website: From its beginnings in the late 1800s, photography has idealized the natural world. Photography elevated the pristine environment, evoking the sublime and motivating the protection of natural beauty. Simultaneously, photographic land surveys acted as guides on how to exploit nature, whether through infrastructure, extraction, or armed forces, determining who was displaced. In the Anthropocene—the current geological age in which human activity has been the dominant influence on the environment—lens-based artists are imaging an even more rapidly changing ecology. In Nature on Notice, more than 20 artists from around the globe engage in a visual dialogue about the “new nature” we are living in. Illuminating the need for both artistic and scientific imagination to counter threats to our ecology, these makers speak sensitively to the changes they are witnessing or, as a counterpoint, refer to cultures that have long revered nature while most of the world has steadily consumed it.
Join me for the opening reception on Friday, January 24, 2025, from 2:30 to 6:30 pm. This event is free and requires an RSVP.