BLM Artist in Residence reception November 7
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RENO, Nev. -- The Bureau of Land Management and Friends of Black Rock High Rock would like to invite the public to a reception on November 7 for the 2019 Artist-in-Residence program featuring the work of Mary Kenny and Jack Hulbert. The event will be held from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the McKinley Arts & Culture Center Gallery East at 925 Riverside Drive in Reno. Their work will also be displayed at the gallery though December 6.
Mary Kenny works with digital prints and screen-printed collages. The images she uses deteriorate in quality when screen-printed and become either hyper-saturated or devoid of color. The collages have a feeling of compiled newspaper clippings and old photographs and create an escapist fantasy of a frontier place where humans and nature meet.
Jack Hulbert’s photographs tell the story of the community rooted at the edge of vast, unsettled land. The images are set against an unforgiving landscape – outposts of humanity worn down by the desert. Hulbert also shows the lingering effects that the people have made upon the land – monuments and scars left by travelers and locals.
The AiR program promotes awareness through art of the exceptional places protected within the BLM’s National Conservation Lands. “Each year we receive amazing applications from artists with diverse perspectives expressed in a variety of media,” says Kathy Ataman, AiR Project Lead for the BLM. “It is always exciting to see how the selected artists interpret the dramatic landscapes of the Black Rock National Conservation Area.”
Further information, guidelines and applications can be found at www.blackrockdesert.org or contact Stacey Wittek at stacey@blackrockdesert.org. You may also contact Kathy Ataman, BLM AiR Project Lead, at 775-623-1500 or kataman@blm.gov.
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