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Image of Oil Fields #19b, Belridge, California

Oil Fields #19b, 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: 2005.15.02.02

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


Visual Politics: The Art of Engagement
(2005-2006)

Edward Burtynsky is best known for his disturbingly sublime environmental photographs that chronicle complex and controversial issues of land use—and abuse—around the world. These photographs are of one of California’s most active oil fields near the Central Valley town of Belridge. Despite the great wealth the field generates, it is located in one of the poorest counties in the state.


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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