This afternoon event will feature a lecture and a concert. The gallery will be open starting at 1:30 p.m. and for approximately 30 minutes following the concert.
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Lecture: The Sublime and the Banal in Postwar Photography of the American West
Dr. Cecile Whiting
In 1960, Ansel Adams co-edited This is the American Earth, published by the Sierra Club, warning that aweinspiring landscapes were at risk in an age of human-made development and destruction. At the same time, in the 1960s and 1970s, younger photographers like Ed Ruscha and Robert Adams began to challenge the older photographer’s exalted vision of nature and the environmental assumptions that underpinned it by dispassionately documenting the suburban structures mushrooming across the American Southwest. These artists’ photographic books complicated the apparent dichotomy between sublime wilderness and banal modernity. A professor of visual studies at the University of California at Irvine, Dr. Whiting has published three books including Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s, which was awarded the prestigious Charles C. Eldredge Prize by the Smithsonian American Art Museum for outstanding scholarship in the field of American art.
Concert: A Oneness with the World
Ivan Seng
Ansel Adams was a highly trained musician who considered a career as a concert pianist. Seng, who received a Masters of Music degree at the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, will perform some of Adams’s favorite music by Johann Sebastian Bach and Aaron Copland. This will be joined by a suite of pieces by North Carolina composer Kenneth Frazelle inspired by blue wildflowers of the Appalachian Mountains.