Ansley West Rivers

Exhibition details:

June 6 - August 17, 2024

Opening Reception: Thursday, June 6th from 6 to 8:30pm

Over the past decade, Ansley West Rivers has traversed the country photographing the rapidly transforming landscape with her large format camera. Ansley West Rivers: Holding Time brings together three distinct bodies of photographic work to show the disquieting intersection of landscape and humanity. West Rivers’ longstanding project Seven Rivers looks at seven important American watersheds from source to sea through meticulously constructed compositions. More recently, West Rivers has turned her attention to bodies of water near her home in Idaho as she observes the steady and sometimes heartbreaking change to essential fresh water sources. Seven Rivers is complemented by Tree Portraits, a new body of work motivated by the sudden annihilation of Aspen trees on a neighboring property and the often patchwork and fragmented human attempts to reconstruct man-made losses. The need for preservation is brought to Georgia’s doorstep through the inclusion of The Water That Surrounds Us, large-scale maps and tapestries depicting the waterways of Savannah, along with the Georgia & South Carolina coastlines. West Rivers previously lived on the Georgia Coast where she spent time exploring the wild barrier Islands of Georgia and South Carolina. This body of work was inspired by the intricate waterways that weave themselves around marshland and island landscapes that embody the beauty of the low country. West Rivers created this series of maps and Island tapestries through unique applications of the cyanotype and palladium printing techniques.  

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