The College of Southern Nevada, School of Arts & Letters, and Department of Fine Arts will host an exhibition of landscape photography by New York City based multimedia and performance artist, Thomas Pickarski. Thomas Pickarski: Snow, Sand, Ice will open on Friday, July 12, 2024, and run through Saturday, June 26, 2024, in the Artspace Gallery on the North Las Vegas campus of the College of Southern Nevada.
Thomas Pickarski is a multimedia visual and performance artist. The themes he works with include minor obsessions, the bizarre landscape, self-realization, and social justice. Pickarski often integrates storytelling into his work through text and spoken word. He holds a BFA in Painting and an MFA in Performance Art, both from Arizona State University. When not traveling the globe, Pickarski lives and works in New York City.
Speaking of his exhibition, Snow, Sand, Ice, Pickarski states, “The day I moved to a desert as a teenager, someone welcoming me to the area said, “Look how big the sky is!” I became intrigued with how landscapes that are void of most vegetation can strikingly portray the illusion of vast spaciousness, as well as allow for a direct experience with the raw forms, colors, and surfaces that might otherwise be obscured by grass, moss, or trees. For this body of work, I traveled extensively through the treeless arctic deserts of Iceland, the world’s driest desert, Atacama of Northern Chile, the deserts of the American West, and the mouth of the ice fjord in Greenland where the most productive glacier in the Northern Hemisphere surrenders to the sea. I’ve created a series of landscape photographs that offer a glimpse of the most remote corners of the world, while also addressing the climate crisis in unique ways including through a spoken-word short film that is set in an imagined future. These natural and sometimes fabricated fantasy-like settings invoke the beauty and drama of fairy tales when long-ago giants and elves walked the earth.”
The CSN Artspace Gallery is free, family friendly, and open to the public. Gallery hours are from 8 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday. The Artspace Gallery is upstairs above the main entrance 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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