Altered Landscape #1
Michael Namingha, Hopi / American, born 1977
Hopi
Southwest
2019
Digital chromogenic color print face-mounted to shaped acrylic
Overall: 35 × 34 × 1 in. (88.9 × 86.4 × 2.5 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Robert J. Strasenburgh II 1942 Fund
© Michael Namingha
2019.79
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Native American: Southwest
Native American
Photograph
Not on view
Label
During a 2017 residency at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum, Michael Namingha found himself drawn to the distinct, rounded gray-and-black terrain of the Bistahí Dééł Náázíní (Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness), which O’Keeffe called “The Black Place.” The area sits beneath the largest methane cloud in the United States, and when viewed with infrared technology appears as a bright red, orange, and yellow dot over the Four Corners region. After using a drone to capture the image of the fragile landscape, Namingha imposed the infrared palette into the sky in post-production. The result is a dreamlike image, a hauntingly beautiful interrogation of human intervention on the landscape.
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
ARTH 5, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2020
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2020
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021
NAS 30.21, Native American Art and Material, Jami Powell, Spring 2021
ANTH 55, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Spring 2021
ANTH 7.05, Animals and Humans, Laura Ogden, Winter 2022
GEOG 31.01, Postcolonial Geographies, Erin Collins, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ANTH 50.05, Environmental Archaeology, Madeleine McLeester, Winter 2022
ARTH 5.01, Introduction to Contemporary Art, Mary Coffey and Chad Elias, Winter 2022
ANTH 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin6, Spring 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
ANTH 3.01, Introduction to Cultural Anthropology, Chelsey Kivland, Summer 2022
SPAN 65.15, Wonderstruck: Archives and the Production of Knowledge in an Unequal World, Silvia Spitta and Barbara Goebel, Summer 2022
Anthropology 55.01, Anthropology of Global Health, Anne Sosin, Spring 2023
Environmental Studies 80.08, The Practice of Science Policy Diplomacy, Melody Brown Burkins, Spring 2023
Environmental Studies 80.08, The Practice of Science Policy Diplomacy, Melody Brown Burkins, Spring 2023
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.
Provenance
Niman Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico; sold to present collection, 2019.
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