Chris Drury
Subtitle: mushrooms/clouds
By: Ann M. Wolfe ; with contributions from Lynn Fenstermaker ... [et al.].
Contributors: Drury, Chris, 1948-; Fenstermaker, Lynn K.; Nevada Museum of Art.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Center books on the American West
Publisher: Center for American Places at Columbia College : Reno, Nev.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chicago, Ill; In association with the Nevada Museum of Art ; [Chicago, Ill.] : Distributed by the University of Chicago Press
Language: eng
Number of pages: 87
ISBN-13: 9781935195023; 9781935195047
Subjects: Drury, Chris, -- 1948- -- Exhibitions; Earthworks (Art) -- Exhibitions; Conceptual art -- Exhibitions
Genres: Exhibitions
Other titles: Mushrooms/clouds
Description: "British artist Chris Drury has been lauded for his many installations and site-specific works that investigate themes related to the environment." "In Mushrooms/Clouds, a series of artworks commissioned by the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Drury brought an international perspective to topics ranging from land and water appropriation to nuclear testing in the American West. In many of these works, Drury utilizes materials collected from such places as Pyramid Lake, Donner State Park, and the Nevada Test Site to engage viewers in the many connections between art and the environment at the micro and macro scales. Drury's embrace of metaphor and analogy also offers multiple meanings with the objects and artwork he creats. He makes visual the myriad connections between the natural and built environment and the historical interface of culture, ecology, economists, and politics on a place."--Jacket.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nev., Aug. 10-Oct. 5, 2008.
Table of contents: title: Preface and acknowledgments / by David B. Walker; title: Mushrooms/clouds / by Ann M. Wolfe; title: Indigenous Paiute stories / by Ralph Burns; title: Chris Drury : toward an ecological conscience in environmental art / by Colin M. Roberston; title: From finger paint to Frenchman flats : a scientist reflects / by Lynn Fenstermaker; title: Shelters of exposure : giving form to interdisciplinary exchange / by Jamie Kruse and Elizabeth Ellsworth; title: Artist biography / compiled by Miriam Stanton; title: Additional reading / compiled by Miriam Stanton; title: About the authors.