2021
Ryan Mine, (Rare Earth) Death Valley
By Michael Davis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
The mining and processing to separate the rare earth elements is an environmental conundrum. On one hand these elements are in extremely high demand and necessary for electric vehicles...
Gold Leaf
Bayan Mine, China
By Michael Davis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
They are built from a collection of found materials, fabrics, wallpapers, digital imagery, paint and precious metals. The digital Landsat image is positioned in juxtaposition to the ...
Metal
Rio Tinto Mine, Madagascar (Rare Earth)
By Michael Davis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
While navigating Landsat records of Earth's land surfaces from space I discovered large areas of disturbed landscapes. These were immense open pit mines at numerous locations worldwide, many of which were Rare Earth mines or REEs. A digital image of a rare earth mine in Madagascar in combination with Landsat imagery, vintage damask wallpaper...
Gold Leaf
Palabora Mine, South Africa
By Michael Davis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
I begin each artwork with research. I navigate the Landsat archived images or mining operations world-wide. The collection or images is curated to those which share a similar visual ...
Fabric, Plywood, Acrylic, Archival Pigment
Bayan Mine, China abstract print
By Michael Davis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
They are built from a collection of found materials, fabrics, wallpapers, digital imagery, paint and precious metals. The digital Landsat image is positioned in juxtaposition to the ...
Metal
Limpopo, 2021
By Michael Davis
Located in Palm Desert, CA
Style: Contemporary, Modern, Conceptual Small study for the series “Rare Earth"
Metal
Nevadan Orogeny
By Jenny Day
Located in New Orleans, LA
Jenny Day is a painter who divides her time between Santa Fe, New Mexico and Tucson, Arizona. She paints a fragmented space, examining human demand and the effects of environmental d...
Ink, Spray Paint, Acrylic, Color Pencil
Atoll
By Nancy Baker
Located in New York, NY
paper construction on wood panel 14"x 11" (available unframed) Nancy Baker creates detailed paper constructions by combining hand and laser cut geometric forms based loosely on m...
Archival Paper, Glitter, Paint, Wood Panel
Canyon, Original Painting
By John Gardner
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist Comments
A conceptual collage mapping the intricate geometry of the desert landscape. Part of John's newest series of mixed media works meticulously hand cut from vint...
Mixed Media
Xenestela 7. From The Series Xenestela
By Fredy Saul Serrano Buitrago
Located in Miami Beach, FL
Exuberantly colorful, symmetric colleges with ovoid shapes, called emissaries, originate from another cosmic dimension. We are troubled by the unsettling apprehension that they may b...
Archival Paper, Magazine Paper
The Painted Desert 2
By Brian Hubble
Located in New York, NY
Merging the opposing forces of nature and the human-made, these are landscape photographs based on the Painted Desert in Arizona, and the Badlands in South Dakota. Each piece is produced by combining a series of photo...
Archival Paper
Mundo Colorado
By Manitoba
Located in Saint-Didier, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur
Digital print, produced in 12 numbered copies, presented in an aluminium box in Plexiglass. The optical rendering sublimates the colors. Word of the artist: A muse invites herself t...
Plexiglass, Etching
