BP3
Artist
Michael Namingha
(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.eMuseum Notes
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.
On View
Not on viewSubhankar Banerjee
2009 (printed 2011)