Carol Hartman, Into The Light, mixed media, 62”x90”
Jeff Schmuki, Extractors #1, 2024, mixed ceramics with glazes containing mine tailings and lithium oxide, 24” x 16” x 14”
Klee Benally, The Dark Mark of Manifest Destiny, 2021, digital gif
Exhibition Dates: Through December 20, 2025
SHIFTING TOPOGRAPHIES: Extracting the Landscape features projects by Carol Hartman (Red Lodge, MT), Jeff Schmuki (Stateboro, GA), and Klee Benally in memoriam (Diné, Black Mesa, Navajo Nation; Flagstaff, AZ). In a rapidly changing climate, we are witness to and complicit in irreversible scarring of the land. There are eight National Parks and Monuments within a 2-hour drive of Flagstaff that face potential threats to their preservation, due to the proposed federal reopening of protected sacred lands to mining. This timely and relevant exhibition theme—extraction—takes on a markedly different approach depending on the geographical and cultural perspectives of the represented artists.
Concurrently in the Project Gallery, Tin Can Conversations uses the core motif of a tin can telephone to explore the fragility, complexity, and profound value of interpersonal communication. A series of sculptures and time-based artworks explore physical and psychological distance, miscommunication, disagreement, sensitivity, power dynamics, love, and connection. Inspired by a difficult cross-country displacement, and by the challenge of maintaining healthy relationships during the COVID pandemic, Galloway uses unconventional materials in his artworks to connect with audiences, while pushing those materials to overcome their humble origins.
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