Geologic Dialogues through May 2024
Part 1 Photography
Thursday, November 16
United States: 12pm PST, 1pm MST, 2pm CST, 3pm EST
Europe: 20:00 GMT
Australia: 7:00am AEDT
Starting this month we will commence a new series of monthly dialogues (through May 2024) organized around our recently launched annual online exhibition + printed book The New Geologic Epoch. Each event will bring together artists included who are engaged with similar or complimentary mediums/topics. This first event includes *two artists who are also included in our in-person pop-up exhibition, As Above, So Below, on view in Santa Fe, through November 18, 2023.
The presenters for Part I are all photographers and include: Barbara Boissevain, *Meridel Rubenstein, Dennis DeHart and *Alexander Heilner. We are planning a second event with additional photographers, Spring 2024.
Each presenter will have 10 minutes to discuss their work, with Q&A to follow.
Gif Images: ©Barbara Boissevain, Extraction Series, 2021; ©Meridel Rubenstein, Eden Turned on Its Side: The Volcano Cycle 2011-2014, 2023; ©Dennis DeHart, Hells Canyon: An Exotic Terrane Series, 2020-2022; ©Sarah Bachinger, Anti-Glacier Series, 2023; ©Alexander Heilner, Draining the Colorado Series, 2021-2023.
Member presenters
Barbara Boissevain is a contemporary visual artist and photographer, based in Palm Springs, California, whose work focuses on the impact of human activity on the environment. Nature’s ability to regenerate and reclaim human altered landscapes is a central theme in her work. Boissevain received her B.F.A in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute and an M.F.A. in Photography at San Jose State University. She has exhibited her work widely, including international solo and group exhibitions in the USA and Europe. Her art has been acquired by numerous public and private collections around the world, including the Google Corporate Art Collection, Sunnyvale, CA; De Pietri Artphilein Foundation, Lugano, Switzerland; and Galerie Huit, Arles, France. Her monograph “Salt of the Earth” was recently published by Kehrer Verlag in October and will be released at Paris Photo 2023. This book is Barbara’s “love letter” to the Bay, encapsulating her connection and commitment to documenting the ongoing restoration of former industrial salt ponds into thriving natural wetlands. www.barbaraboissevain.com
Meridel Rubenstein's series Volcano Cycle, explores deep time with photographic images of volcanoes from Indonesia’s Ring of Fire. These evoke earth forces, climate change, and human coevolution. Large-format negatives have been printed digitally on prepared aluminum plates. The metal echoes the deep timbre of the eruptions, as well as the transmutation of materials, minerals, and metals that occur during a volcanic event. After eons of fire and ice and then melt, our Eden emerged. Without the earliest volcanic activity, enough carbon dioxide would not have been released to produce global warming to melt the ice cover. Oxygen could then arise to eventually breathe us into being. Volcanoes offer a window into both our own evolution and participation in global warming. Rubenstein began her professional career in the early 1970s, evolving from photographer of single photographic images to artist of extended works, multi-media installations, and social practice. She lives and work in Santa Fe, New Mexico. www.meridelrubenstein.com
Dennis DeHart’s works engage with the connections, conflicts, and intersections of nature and culture. His photography and interdisciplinary projects weave together interconnected themes of identity, place, and the natural world. Committed to a journey of life-long learning and adventure, art function as Dennis’ primary tool of inquiry. Born and raised in the Pacific Northwest; water, and public lands, play a significant role in his identity and world view. He is currently an Associate Professor of Art with Washington State University, which is located on the ceded lands of the Nimiipuu (Nez Perce) tribe and the traditional homelands of the Palus Band of Indians. DeHart will discuss his images of 200 million year old fossilized sea life, found in Hells Canyon National Wilderness, and part of his larger project, Hells Canyon: An Exotic Terrane. www.dennisdehart.com
Alexander Heilner is an internationally exhibited artist whose arresting photography sits at the intersection of fine art, documentation, and advocacy. Much of his practice involves aerial imagery of the land and human incursions within it. Draining the Colorado is an expansive, long-term project in which he is cataloging the diminishment of water throughout the Colorado River Basin, due to the ongoing megadrought and decades of unbridled regional development. His subjects include audacious hydrological manipulation – and its consequences – for agriculture, industrial extraction, urban consumption, and recreation. www.heilner.net
This event is free for members + one guest. $5 for non-members. All participants MUST REGISTER.
