Living Room Floor, Ninth Ward, from the series, In Katrina's Wake: Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster
Chris Jordan, American, born 1963
negative 2005; print 2012
Epson UltrachromeK3 pigmented inkjet print
3/9
Sheet: 20 × 24 in. (50.8 × 61 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Gift of the artist
© Chris Jordan
2012.51.1
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Photograph
Not on view
Label
The Lower Ninth Ward, a predominantly Black neighborhood in New Orleans, Louisiana, was among the areas that faced the most devastation by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Today, fewer than half the Ward’s residents have been able to return home. In his series Portraits of Loss from an Unnatural Disaster, Chris Jordan calls attention to the damage exacerbated by climate change, poor infrastructure, and racial discrimination.
From the 2022 exhibition This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, curated by Jami C. Powell, Curator of Indigenous Art; Barbara J. MacAdam, former Jonathan L. Cohen Curator of American Art; Thomas H. Price, former Curatorial Assistant; Morgan E. Freeman, former DAMLI Native American Art Fellow; and Michael Hartman, Jonathan Little Cohen Associate Curator of American Art
Course History
ENGS 7, Climate Change, Mary Albert, Winter 2013
ENGS 7, Climate Change, Mary Albert, Winter 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
WRIT 5, Writing into the Wilderness, Nancy Crumbine, Fall 2014
ENGS 7.2, Climate Change, Mary Albert, Winter 2015
ENGS 7.02, Climate Change, Mary Albert, Winter 2019
ENGL 75.2, Climate Fiction, Alysia Garrison, Spring 2019
GEOG 37, Climate for Human Security, Justin Mankin, Summer 2019
Exhibition History
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, January 5–April 18, 2022.
Waterways: Tension and Flow, Harrington Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 4-August 23, 2015.
Provenance
The artist; given to present collection, 2012.
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