A multi-channel video installation projected onto the gallery’s walls and accompanied by an original soundtrack, BLUE DESERT surrounds the observer with spectacular views of Antarctica’s vast, haunting, and fragile landscape. More akin to a moving painting or chapel of frescos than to a nature documentary, the project builds a dramatic environment that encourages audiences to contemplate and meditate upon the fleeting light, grand scale, and striking majesty of this distant and largely uninhabited part of the earth. While any depiction of the Antarctic is, in some sense, futile — an attempt to represent the unrepresentable — BLUE DESERT, shot during a three week expedition to Antarctica using high-resolution cameras and audio equipment, offers one rendering of a world that is at once overwhelming and alien, deeply felt and unfathomable, immediate and unreachable.
Exhibitions/Screenings
- Cleveland Clinic, Art and Environment Exhibition, April-July, 2016
- Anchorage Museum of Art, Anchorage Alaska, February 26, 2016
- Apollo Theater Faculty Exhibition, Oberlin College. May 23, 2015
- Newseum, Washington, DC. April 5th, 2013
- Apollo Theater Gala Celebration, Oberlin College. September 22,23, 2012
- Ingenuity Fest 2012, Cleveland, OH. September, 2012
- Baron Gallery, Oberlin College. Feb 9-15, 2012
- Laconia Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts. Nov 3-Dec 3, 2011
- Within the Landscape, University of Akron, Myers School of Art. Oct 31- Dec 3, 2011