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Unsettled Exhibition schedule: The Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, August 26, 2017—January 21, 2018; Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska, April 6, 2018—September 9, 2018; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California, October 27, 2018—February 18, 2019

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  • About the Author Lily Brewer is a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh, where she studies modern and contemporary landscape and aerial photography

  • Based in Chicago and Pittsburgh, she is the editor-in-chief of the forthcoming journal Sedimenta, which investigates environmentalism in the arts and humanities

  • “The theme ‘shifting ground’ tells the story of the epic collisions of the tectonic boundaries that create the physical landscapes of the greater west,” writes Northrup

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About the Author Lily Brewer is a PhD student at the University of Pittsburgh, where she studies modern and contemporary landscape and aerial photography. The Nevada Museum of Art’s exhibition Unsettled provides us with a new grammar called the Greater West, which invites artists to take back the frontier narrative from colonizing currents.In its companion triennial conference, contemporary art curators William L. Fox and JoAnne Northrup define the Greater West as a super-region surrounding the Pacific Basin, “from Alaska to Patagonia to Papua New Guinea to Australia.” In turn, the exhibition visualizes artistic practices within larger global, planetary conditions, making (re)appropriation the Unsettled’s contemporary artists revise the sublime yet threatening frontier narratives perpetuated, in part, by the exhibition’s twentieth-century artists, such as U.S southwest painters Georgia O’Keefe in Road Past the View (1964) and Gerard Curtis Delano in Navajo Camp

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