FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: CSN FINE ARTS GALLERY PRESENTS – Amanda Langer: Material Mutualism
Friday, October 9 through Thursday, November 19, 2026
Gallery Talk & Closing Reception: Thursday, November 19, 2026
North Las Vegas Campus – Fine Arts Gallery
The College of Southern Nevada, School of Arts & Letters, and Department of Fine Arts will host a solo exhibition of sculptural work by Wisconsin artist Amanda Langer that asks the viewer to consider the relationship between humanity and the natural world. Amanda Langer: Material Mutualism opens Friday, October 9, 2026, and runs through Thursday, November 19, 2026, in the Fine Arts Gallery at the North Las Vegas Campus of the College of Southern Nevada. A special Gallery Talk and Closing Reception, with refreshments, will take place on Thursday, November 19, 2026, at 6:00 pm. All CSN Art Gallery events are free, family-friendly, and open to the public.
Amanda Langer studied sculpture and natural resources at the University of Wisconsin Stevens Point, earning her Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2017. She spent the following years working in ecological restoration and landscaping with native plants. Her artwork is informed by her experiences in this field and is especially focused on exploring conflict between industry and nature, systems and people, and within the self.
She has been a resident artist at Wisconsin Art Hub, has shown her work widely around Wisconsin, and has also completed public works for Stevens Point Sculpture Park, Hart Park in Wauwatosa (WI), and commissioned artwork for the Rochester Art Center (MN). Langer has received awards at the Art Fair Off the Square, Stevens Point Festival of the Arts, and the Mary Hoard Art Show.
In her work, Langer explores the nature of conflict as a simplification between two entities that are wildly different and appear to have nothing to do with each other. She questions how the differences between the materials reflect the differences that humans experience, whether that be within individual selves, between persons, or amidst groups–whether in terms of race, religion, or political ideology. She is curious about how people identify each material with extremes on a spectrum. Langer attempts to show that the differences do not have to be in conflict and that it might be to the highest benefit of both that the differences exist, to show how the unique features of each enhance the best parts of the other, and that by being in combination, the result is much more powerful than either one could be on its own. Langer challenges the dominant culture’s relentless obsession with infighting and domination and asks what brighter possibilities exist if we turn away from obliteration as a solution and instead focus on how our differences can serve as complementary strengths to make any of the infinitely possible better futures real.
Reflecting on her practice, Langer adds, “Through my work, I invite my audience to consider how these pieces reflect relationships within the human world and those beyond our own species, such as between humanity and the natural world. The works point to symbiotic relationships that already occur and offer visions of the possibility of mutualisms that could exist if we choose to connect rather than to conflict.”
CSN’s Fine Arts Gallery is free, family-friendly, and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The gallery is located adjacent to the Nicholas J. Horn Theatre Lobby on the North Las Vegas campus, located at 3200 E. Cheyenne Avenue, one mile East of I-15 North.
For more information, please call (702) 651-4146
http://www.csn.edu/artgallery
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