Nevadans for Cultural Preservation—Modern Desert Markings: An Homage to Las Vegas Area Land Art

On display March 14 — July 8, 2023
Exhibition Reception: March 24, 2023, 5 – 8 pm

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, East Gallery and WorkShop Gallery
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
4505 S Maryland Pkwy, Las Vegas, NV 89119

Curated by Katie Hoffman and Hikmet Sidney Loe

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art and Nevadans for Cultural Preservation are pleased to present Modern Desert Markings: An Homage to Las Vegas Area Land Art, an exhibition that uses contemporary perspectives to critique five historic works of Land Art located in the deserts of southern Nevada. Curators Katie Hoffman and Hikmet Sidney Loe have selected 10 artists from around the United States to produce new work inspired by foundational pieces of Land Art created by Walter De Maria (1935 - 2013), Michael Heizer (1944 -), and Jean Tinguely (1925 - 1991). Working in drawing, sculpture, photography, video, and more, the 10 artists bring fresh and critical eyes to these celebrated works from the 1960s and ‘70s, using a diversity of approaches to address related issues such as land ownership, desert ecology, and tourism. 

This program is supported in part by Nevada Humanities.

Michael Heizer's Circular Surface Planar Displacement, Dry Lake, Nevada, 1970. Photo by Gianfranco Gorgoni © Maya Gorgoni.