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Oil Fields #19a, Belridge, California
Photograph

2003-2005
48 x 60 in. (121.92 x 152.4 cm)

Edward Burtynsky (Saint Catharines, Ontario, Canada, 1955 - )

Object Type: Photograph
Medium and Support: Chromogenic print on paper
Credit Line: Gift of the Lipman Family Foundation
Accession Number: 2005.15.02.01

Exhibition


Indestructible Wonder, April 18, 2016 - January 29, 2017, Second Floor, Central and North Galleries, San José Museum of Art.

Variations on a Theme, May 23, 2009 - February 7, 2010, New Wing, Second Floor, Central Skylight Gallery, San José Museum of Art. (Included in Part II: August 1, 2009-February 7, 2010.)

Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, July 30, 2007 - September 9, 2007, San José Museum of Art.

Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement, November 20, 2005 - March 5, 2006, New Wing, First Floor, Gibson Family Gallery and Plaza Gallery, San José Museum of Art. Circulated to: Katzen Art Center at American University, Washington, DC, April 9-July 29, 2006.

SJMA Label Text


Indestructible Wonder (2016-2017)

Photographer Edward Burtynsky chronicles complex and controversial issues of land use around the world. His overriding interest in the environment has led to long-term photographic essays on subjects such as oil, mining, quarries, and water, which raise environmental and ethical questions about humanity’s alteration of the land. In Oil Fields #19a, Belridge, California and Oil Fields #19b, Belridge, California, Burtynsky showed the interface of industry and central California’s landscape, where acres of oil rigs methodically hammer the ground. Burtynsky strikes an intricate balance between somber reportage and a powerfully seductive aesthetic that subverts usual notions of the sublime in nature and leads to a new awareness of the landscape of our times.

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