Lucerne Valley #24 | Mark Ruwedel
2007/2017
17 x 22 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Mark Ruwedel has photographed landscapes in Canada and the United States for more than three decades. This image, from his series Desert Houses, is part of the artist’s sustained meditation on the perpetual negotiation between people and places. It depicts an abandoned house in the desert regions east of Los Angeles, an area layered with both cultural and natural histories. The image testifies to the impulse to create a home in the wilderness, however transitory, and points to myths of the West that have driven American expansion throughout its history.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Born 1954 in Bethlehem, PA
Los Angeles–based artist Mark Ruwedel received his MFA from Concordia University in Montreal in 1983 and taught at the university until 2001. Since 2002 he has been on the faculty of California State University Long Beach. In 2014 he won both the Scotiabank Photography Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography. He has published numerous books, the most recent of which is Message from the Exterior (MACK, 2016).
Selected solo exhibitions: Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (2017); Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2015); “Dusk,” Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI (2012); “Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Ma (2010).
Selected group exhibitions: “About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016); “The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art,” Washington, DC (2015); “Land Marks,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2013); “Builders: Canadian Biennial,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2012); “Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera,” Tate Modern, London (2010).
Selected public collections: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
2007/2017
17 x 22 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Mark Ruwedel has photographed landscapes in Canada and the United States for more than three decades. This image, from his series Desert Houses, is part of the artist’s sustained meditation on the perpetual negotiation between people and places. It depicts an abandoned house in the desert regions east of Los Angeles, an area layered with both cultural and natural histories. The image testifies to the impulse to create a home in the wilderness, however transitory, and points to myths of the West that have driven American expansion throughout its history.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Born 1954 in Bethlehem, PA
Los Angeles–based artist Mark Ruwedel received his MFA from Concordia University in Montreal in 1983 and taught at the university until 2001. Since 2002 he has been on the faculty of California State University Long Beach. In 2014 he won both the Scotiabank Photography Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography. He has published numerous books, the most recent of which is Message from the Exterior (MACK, 2016).
Selected solo exhibitions: Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (2017); Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2015); “Dusk,” Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI (2012); “Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Ma (2010).
Selected group exhibitions: “About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016); “The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art,” Washington, DC (2015); “Land Marks,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2013); “Builders: Canadian Biennial,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2012); “Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera,” Tate Modern, London (2010).
Selected public collections: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
2007/2017
17 x 22 inches
Edition of 20, 3 APs
ABOUT THE ARTWORK
Mark Ruwedel has photographed landscapes in Canada and the United States for more than three decades. This image, from his series Desert Houses, is part of the artist’s sustained meditation on the perpetual negotiation between people and places. It depicts an abandoned house in the desert regions east of Los Angeles, an area layered with both cultural and natural histories. The image testifies to the impulse to create a home in the wilderness, however transitory, and points to myths of the West that have driven American expansion throughout its history.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Born 1954 in Bethlehem, PA
Los Angeles–based artist Mark Ruwedel received his MFA from Concordia University in Montreal in 1983 and taught at the university until 2001. Since 2002 he has been on the faculty of California State University Long Beach. In 2014 he won both the Scotiabank Photography Award and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Photography. He has published numerous books, the most recent of which is Message from the Exterior (MACK, 2016).
Selected solo exhibitions: Yossi Milo Gallery, New York (2017); Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2015); “Dusk,” Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI (2012); “Imprints: Photographs by Mark Ruwedel,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Ma (2010).
Selected group exhibitions: “About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2016); “The Memory of Time: Contemporary Photographs at the National Gallery of Art,” Washington, DC (2015); “Land Marks,” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2013); “Builders: Canadian Biennial,” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa (2012); “Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera,” Tate Modern, London (2010).
Selected public collections: Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London; The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles