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BP3

Artist (American, Hopi, born 1977)
Date2017
Mediumdigital chromogenic print mounted to shaped Plexiglas
DimensionsImage (Irregular Shape): 19 3/8 × 38 in. (49.2 × 96.5 cm)
ClassificationsPhotograph
Credit LineGift of Loren G. Lipson, M.D., 2017
Object number2017.8
DescriptionHorizontal, irregularly shaped photographs of black hills intersected vertically by a solid wedge of black color near the mid-point.
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The title refers to the Black Place, a desolate but geographically interesting area of the Bisti Badlands in northern New Mexico made famous by the paintings of Georgia O’Keeffe.
The Black Place, in New Mexico’s Bisti Badlands, is a desolate, fragile, and  visually fascinating area that has been celebrated by artists including  Georgia O’Keeffe, Eliot Porter, and Walter Nelson. This unique landscape is also part of the San Juan Basin, which is rich in oil and gas. To make visible the contemporary issues of land preservation and land use, Michael Namingha drives a black wedge into his photograph of the hills of the Black Place, suggesting conflict, desecration, and absence.
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