Facing Fire at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art →

Facing Fire:

Art, Wildlife and the End of Nature in the New West

July 8 - December 16, 2023

Fire as omen and elemental force, as metaphor and searing personal experience—these are thesubjects explored by the artists ofFacing Fire.California’sdiverse ecologies are fire-prone, fire-adapted,even fire-dependent. In the past two decades, however, West Coast wildfires have exploded in scale andseverity. There is a powerful consensus that we have entered a new era. The artists ofFacing Firebringus incendiary work from active fire lines and psychic burn zones. They face fire, sift its aftermath, andstruggle with the implications.

This exhibition has been curated by Douglas McCulloh and organized by UCR ARTS: California Museum of Photography.  Artists include: Noah Berger, Kevin Cooley, Josh Edelson, Samantha Fields, Jeff Frost, Luther Gerlach, Christian Houge, Richard Hutter, Anna Mayer, Stuart Palley, Norma I. Quintana, and Justin Sullivan.