Museum of Nebraska Art (Brian next to, central -Nebraska today)
Kearney – The Museum of Nebraska Art (Mona) is pleased to announce his autumn exhibition Dana Fritz: Field Guide for a hybrid landscape that will open on August 22nd in Lauritzen Gallery.
The work of the photographer of the middle West Dana Fritz sees the hybrid landscape in Nebraska preservation, fortunation, regeneration and the ecological tension.
In the exhibition, Fritz observes the human impression of our environmental history, the devastating but restorative effects of the running fire and the resistance of nature. Her black and white photography offers a rich and pedagogical story for museum visitors, which seamlessly connects the natural landmarks of the state by moving and nuanced pictures of the Nebraska National Forest in Halsey and Bessey Nursery.
Fritz revolves around the formally named Nebraska National Forest and Grasslands-Bessey Ranger District, once the world's largest folded forest and offers a visual examination of the forest and its complicated relationship with the local prairie, which was documented before and after the devastating running fire in 2022.
“The Museum of Nebraska Art is honored, Fritz 'Field Guide, a meditation that is about to think about the past, present and future of Nebraska's hand -charged forest,” said Karissa Johnson, curator in Mona, “Our proximity to the forest brings this work directly into the conversation with the environment of the museum in the environmental environment.”
The most important information for the exhibition includes:
• Mona will be three works entitled Field Guide to a hybrid landscape, according to which postal laws and Re: Re: Forest, consisting of 41 archive pigment prints, 24 Photo-Tex prints and an artist book.
• Fritz 'Photography was exhibited at over 140 locations in Germany and internationally. Now her latest exhibition is marking her second time that she has been presenting her work in a solo show in Mona of the Kearney community since 2011.
• Kearney is about two hours from Bessey Ranger District of the Nebraska National Forest. The next Fritz has exhibited its work in the original location where the photos were taken.
“If we continue to face ecological challenges, this work emphasizes the skills and willpower of mankind to assert control over the landscape and the different types of how nature adapts and resists,” said Johnson.
Field Guide for a hybrid landscape takes into account the hand -planned forest and the indigenous prairie in dialogue. Halsey's forest was founded in the middle of the Sandhill of Nebraska and was originally planted to change the grassland and the local climate.
In PostScript after the fire, Fritz returns to the forest after the fire of the Bovee, which devastated almost 19,000 acres, including over 5,000 acres in the Nebraska National Forest in 2022. The drought intensified by drought, the forest fire triggered the ethical question of realizing the forest or allowed to regenerate the endangered prairie.
The Re: Forest Photo Collection is shown for the first time in its entirety on Mona's autumn exhibition. It was originally commissioned by the Platte Basin Timelapse project.
Subject: Wald begins in Bessey Nurery, the oldest federal school in the USA, next to the hand -planned forest and the Middle Loup River. Fritz follows the path of the seeds that are sown in kindergarten, while they are distributed to national forests that are affected by forest fire and beetle attack within the plate basin.
With her visual storytelling, Fritz 'photography frames the historical meaning and current relevance of the experimental landscape. Their work is contemplative and confronted, an unshakable reflection about the way people form the environment – from the deliberate forstation to unintentional forest fires and beyond. Mona invites museum visitors to have talks about climate change and the resistance of nature.
Fritz is currently a professor of art, art history and design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She has a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Kansas City Art Institute and a Master of Fine Arts from Arizona State University.