Michael Light
Black Rock Dust, Looking Northwest, 2017
Estimated Value: $3,500

Pigment print on Hahnemuhle rag
24 x 30 inches
Unframed
Edition 3/5
Signed, verso
Donated by the artist, courtesy of EUQINOM Gallery.

This is a more representational image of the Black Rock Desert made along with my much more abstract and spatially unmoored work published in last year's "Lake Lahontan/Lake Bonneville" by Radius Books.

I love the image, its delicacy and ephemerality, but there was just no place for its direct visual language in the book. So here it is, as a one-off!

About the Artist:
Michael Light

Mike Light is a San Francisco-based photographer focused on the environment and how contemporary American culture relates to it. He has exhibited globally, and his work has been collected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Getty Research Institute, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Denver Art Museum, The New York Public Library, and the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, among others.

For the last fifteen years, Light has aerially photographed over settled and unsettled areas of American space, pursuing themes of mapping, vertigo, human impact on the land, and various aspects of geologic time and the sublime. A private pilot and Guggenheim Fellow, he is currently working on an extended aerial survey of the arid Western states. Radius Books published the first of a multi-volume series of this work, Bingham Mine/Garfield Stack, in 2009. The second, LA Day/LA Night, was released in 2011. The third, Lake Las Vegas/Black Mountain, was published in 2015. The fourth, Lake Lahontan/Lake Bonneville, was released in September 2019.

Light is also known for his globally published archival works. His first, FULL MOON (1999), used lunar geological survey imagery made by the Apollo astronauts to show the moon both as a sublime desert and an embattled point of first human contact. 100 SUNS (2003), focused on the politics and landscape meanings of military photographs of U.S. atmospheric nuclear detonations from 1945 to 1962.

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