» Public Reception for Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape // February 7, 2013
For more than a decade, Victoria Sambunaris (American, born 1964) has traversed the United States equipped with a five-by-seven wooden field camera and sheets of color negative film. Covering seemingly every road and freeway between the coasts and beyond, she has captured the vast American landscape and terrain, and its intersection with civilization. Sambunaris has said that she has “an unrelenting curiosity to understand the American landscape and our place in it.” While humans are in awe of the power of nature, we are also energetic and domineering diggers, builders, and settlers. Sambunaris’s photographs thus strikingly record our ongoing, uneasy relationship with the natural world.
Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape originated at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York and was organized by Christie Mazuera Davis, Program Director, Contemporary Art and Public Programs at the Lannan Foundation, and Albright-Knox Curator for the Collection Holly E. Hughes. The MoCP’s presentation and subsequent tour of Victoria Sambunaris: Taxonomy of a Landscape has been generously supported by the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Join us February 7 (5-7pm) for a public reception celebrating this exhibition. The artist will be present at this event.
» Seeing More Than A Fence: Road Trip Along The Southern Border
“I’m trying to convey that it is one: one landscape and one place, although they’re two different countries.” -Victoria Sambunaris
» The Ultimate Road Tripper: Victoria Sambunaris
We’re thrilled to connect you to one of the most respected and well-known American landscape photographers, Victoria Sambunaris. We caught up with our good friend and expert road tripper, who is photographing the intersection of geology, politics and culture along the volatile, international border between the United States and Mexico. For over 10 years, Sambunaris has structured her year around a photographic journey crisscrossing the American landscape, so she definitely knows a thing or two about food on the road. In answering our 3 questions, Sambunaris took us straight to the heart of the beautiful and delicate world of border life; a world Americans have strong opinions about but few have personally experienced.
