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FAR OUT: THE WEST RE-SEEN, PHOTOGRAPHY OF VICTORIA SAMBUNARIS

OCTOBER 30, 2020 – MAY 1, 2021

Untitled (Evaporation Pool) Moab
Victoria Sambunaris, 'Untilted (Evaporation Pool) Moab, UT,' 2016, Chromogenic print. © Victoria Sambunaris

EXHIBITION OVERVIEW

Victoria Sambunaris creates large-scale photographs that document the intersections of the natural and manmade within the American landscape. Each year, Sambunaris embarks on a lengthy journey on the road, using a large format wooden field camera to document what she encounters. With her photography, Sambunaris tries to capture the way in which humans inhabit the landscape, as well as highlight the beauty of the land and human interaction with it. Combining in-depth planning and research with a laborious mode of shooting and developing—sometimes waiting days for the right conditions—Sambunaris’s photographs communicate a deeply layered sense of place.

Since 2002, Sambunaris has come to Utah numerous times to photograph the vast, complex, and beautiful terrain. This exhibition focuses on her photograph of Utah and the Western landscape. The large scale of her work simulates the actual environment, allowing minute details to materialize, subtle colors to emerge, and the viewer to feel as if they are standing in the place of the artist.

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(Untitled) Black Rock
Victoria Sambunaris, 'Untitled (Black Rock),' South End, Great Salt Lake, Utah, 2007, Chromogenic Print, 39 x 55 Inches. From the Private Collection of Michael Reynolds.
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Untitled (Salt Lake Valley Looking at Oquirrh Mts. Utah)
Victoria Sambunaris, 'Untitled (Salt Lake Valley Looking at Oquirrh Mts. Utah),' 2007, Chromogenic Paint Mounted in Dibond, 39 x 55 Inches, James Kelly Contemporary.
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Untitled (Echo Canyon, West)
Victoria Sambunaris, 'Untitled ( Near Echo Canyon, West),' Near Echo, Utah, 2007, Chromogenic Paint, Collection Lannan Foundation.
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Untitled (White Trains on Salt Flats, I-80)
Victoria Sambunaris, 'Untitled (White Trains on Salt Flats, I-80),' Great Salt Lake Desert, Utah, 2002, Chromogenic Print, 39 x 55 Inches. Courtesy of the Artist and Yancey Richardson, New York.
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Untitled (Copper Mine)
Victoria Sambunaris, 'Untitled (Copper Mine),' Bingham Canyon, Utah, 2008, Chromogenic Print, 39x 55 Inches. Andrea and Patrick Lannan.
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Untitled (Border Wall Near Haco, AZ)
Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled (Border Fence), Near Naco, Arizona, 2010, Chromogenic Print, 39 x 55 Inches. Collection of the Lannan Foundation.
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Untitled (Evaporation Pool) Moab
Victoria Sambunaris, 'Untilted (Evaporation Pool) Moab, UT,' 2016, Chromogenic print. © Victoria Sambunaris
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Untitled (Castle Gate), Carbon County UT
Victoria Sambunaris, 'Untitled (Castle Gate),' Carbon County, Utah, 2018, Chromogenic print, 39 x 55 Inches. Courtesy of Artist and Yancey Richardson, New York.
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This exhibition was made possible through the generosity of the:

Marriott Daughters Foundation
Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
The Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Andrea and Patrick Lannan
Michael Reynolds
James Kelly Contemporary