Center for Art + Environment Gallery

CA+E Exhibitions

The CA+E Gallery, a 450-square-foot exhibition space on the Museum’s second floor, is devoted to the presentation of archive materials from the Center’s collection, and exhibitions featuring relevant Art + Environment™ artist-driven projects. Participating artists, organizations, and collectors also offer public talks in conjunction with each exhibition throughout the year.

Exhibitions include:

A+E Gallery
The Canary Project: Landscapes of Climate Change
from January 7, 2012 through April 29, 2012 The Canary Project, founded in 2006 by the artists Susannah Sayler and Edward Morris (Sayler/Morris) initially consisted of Sayler photographing landscapes throughout the world where scientists are studying the impacts of climate change. Titled A History of the Future, the sites included melting glaciers in Peru, rising waters in the Netherlands and Venice, and post-Katrina New... more »
CA+E Library
Richard Black: Australia’s Murray River
from September 29, 2011 through March 31, 2012 Australian architect Richard Black has long been engaged with research related to the Murray River—Australia's longest and most agriculture-intensive watercourse that has been continually impacted by floods. In this exhibition, Black proposes a series of sustainable design solutions to improve both the health of the river system and those living along it. A teacher at the Royal Melbourne... more »
This is Not a Trojan Horse: A Project by Amy Franceschini and Michael Taussig
from September 3, 2011 through March 11, 2012 A multi-faceted and socially engaged project, This is Not a Trojan Horse is a large, human-powered, wooden horse built in Abruzzo, Italy by Amy Franceschini, founder of the artists’ collective Future Farmers. Set in the Abruzzo region of Italy, the project encourages working Italian farmers to explain why they still embrace their chosen vocations. The large-scale, mobile architecture... more »
CA+E Gallery
Fog Garden: The Architecture of Water
from July 30, 2011 through December 18, 2011 People have been using dew from fog as a source of drinking water for centuries, but it wasn’t until the 1950s that scientists in Chile and elsewhere began measuring the moisture content of clouds and designing structures to collect it. During the last five years, several groups of architects have been testing small models of fog collectors in the Atacama Desert, a place where it has not... more »
Feature Gallery North
Helen Mayer Harrison & Newton Harrison: Sierra Nevada: An Adaptation
from September 3, 2011 through December 4, 2011 In Sierra Nevada: An Adaptation, internationally-renowned environmental artists Helen Mayer Harrison and Newton Harrison propose a series of long-term ecological responses to recorded temperature increases in the Sierra Nevada, in collaboration with the Museum's Center for Art + Environment. Their proposals are in... more »
CA+E Gallery
Selections from the Archive
from May 14, 2011 through July 17, 2011 The Center for Art + Environment (CA+E) at the Nevada Museum of Art houses archives documenting creative encounters between more than 400 artists and environments on all seven continents. The Archives, which consists of everything from maps and charts to gloves and hats used in the making of artworks around the world, are a unique resource for scholars, exhibitions, and publications. This... more »
CA+E Gallery
Inside/Out: Art and Architecture in Taipei
from January 15, 2011 through January 30, 2011 Taipei is Taiwan's largest city. An urban area of 6.7 million people, it is often classified as an '"alpha world city"—or a city considered to be a critical node in the global economy. Taipei's urban core is surrounded by national and regional parks. From 2006 to 2009, the Guandu International Outdoor Sculpture Festival—located within sight of downtown Taipei—selected artists to... more »
CA+E Gallery
John Reid: The Fishman Project
from October 2, 2010 through January 9, 2011 In 1988 Australian artist John Reid captured on film the blurred image of what appeared to be a hominid creature underwater. The location was a remote cave high in the mountains of New South Wales, a region of ancient forest under threat from logging. For sixteen years, Reid explored the mountains in order to track down what he describes not as a scientific discovery, but an artistic one.... more »
CA+E Gallery
Bill Gilbert: Physiocartographies
from May 15, 2010 through September 26, 2010 Using a GPS unit and a compass, New Mexico-based artist Bill Gilbert attempts to walk carefully pre-determined routes in both space and time across landscapes in the American West. His carefully-made plans are invariably disrupted by the realities of terrain and the limitations of the human body. In the tradition of British artists such as Richard Long and Chris Drury, Gilbert's... more »
C A+E Gallery
China Town: Lucy Raven
from January 16, 2010 through May 9, 2010 Lucy Raven's video China Town traces copper mining and production from an open pit mine in East Ely, Nevada to the Yangtze River in China, where the semi-processed ore is sent to be smelted, refined, and spun into wire and used to electrify the nation. The video consists of an animated sequence created from more than 7,000 photographs, along with ambient sound that Raven recorded along... more »
CA+E Gallery
Art and Infrastructure: Patricia Johanson and the Petaluma Wetlands Park
from September 19, 2009 through January 10, 2010 Art, ecology, landscaping and functional infrastructure meet in Patricia Johanson's collaborative project - Petaluma Wetlands Park. Using constructed and natural wetlands Johanson created a multi-purpose public landscape providing three miles of recreational use, educational programs and nature study alongside a facility that simultaneously processes human sewage, while also generating... more »
Center for Art + Environment LAB
Unlocking an Archive: Michael Heizer and Walter De Maria
from April 25, 2009 through September 13, 2009 Drawn entirely from a recent gift of archival materials to the Center for Art + Environment, this exhibition offers the first view of documents, posters and photographs from land artists Michael Heizer and Walter De Maria. Heizer and De Maria are among a handful of artists who pioneered the Earthworks movement of the late 1960s. Both artists created the majority of their early work in Nevada,... more »
CA+E Gallery
The Trans-Alaska Pipeline: A Center for Land Use Interpretation Project
from February 7, 2009 through April 19, 2009 The Center for Land Use Interpretation (CLUI) is a non-profit research organization involved in exploring, examining and understanding land and landscape issues. In August 2008, CLUI dispatched a team of artists and scholars along the 800-mile pipeline that transports oil southwards from Prudhoe Bay to the terminal at Valdez. This photographic journey along the length of the entire pipeline... more »