Altered Landscape 12
Michael Namingha, Hopi / American, born 1977
Hopi
Southwest
2019
Digital chromogenic color print face-mounted to shaped acrylic
Overall: 26 3/4 × 37 5/16 × 1 in. (68 × 94.8 × 2.6 cm)
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth: Purchased through the Acquisition and Preservation of Native American Art Fund
© Michael Namingha
2022.3
Geography
Place Made: United States, North America
Period
21st century
Object Name
Photograph
Research Area
Native American: Southwest
Native American
Photograph
Not on view
Inscriptions
Signed, on label, on reverse, bottom edge, in black ink: Mike Namingha; Inscribed, on label, on reverse, printed above signature: Altered Landscape 12, 2021 / Digital C-Print Face Mounted to Shaped Acrylic / Edition of 3 / 28" x 38" x 1" / #1/3
Label
While New Mexico sunsets are often characterized by deep orange-reds and dusky purples, on the day he took this image, artist Michael Namingha recalled the sunset was “searingly bright.” Altered Landscape #12 captures this remarkable phenomenon over the Jemez Mountains west of Santa Fe, which the artist later discovered was the result of atmospheric changes caused by forest fires in Canada. In his Altered Landscapes series, Namingha uses perspective shifts and shaped acrylic to create the illusion of three-di-mensionality within his photographic works that address issues of natural resource extraction in the Four Corners region. The results are hauntingly beautiful interrogations of the impacts 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
Exhibition History
This Land: American Engagement with the Natural World, Owen Robertson Cheatham Gallery, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth, Hanover, New Hampshire, April 20- July 24, 2022.
Provenance
Niman Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico; sold to present collection, 2022.
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