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Goldwell Open Air Museum
is featured in the new book
"Destination Art,"
the definitive guide
to the world's
most unique places
for experiencing art.
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Just
outside of Rhyolite, Nevada, a spectacular ghost town off the road leading to
Death Valley, California, an unlikely group of prominent Belgian
artists created a self-described art situation consisting of
seven outdoor sculptures that are colossal not only in their
scale, but in their placement within the vast upper Mojave desert.
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For the casual visitor, the experience of the Goldwell Open Air Museum is enigmatic.
They encounter a life-size, ghostly interpretation of the Last Supper painting by Leonardo Da Vinci; a 25-foot high pink woman made of cinder blocks; a 24-foot high steel prospector accompanied by a penguin; a blossoming tangle of gleaming chrome car parts; and an exquisitely carved winged woman reaching for the sun from high atop a wooden pillar.
There are few interpretative materials to speak of.
One is left to experience the site as a natural expression of the desert landscape.
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"Out of Print" Exhibit April 20 through June 15
Opening Reception, Sunday, April 20, 2 - 4 p.m., Red Barn Art Center
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On loan from the Utah Arts Council, Out of Print represents 25 of Utah’s finest professional artists using the medium of printmaking to create lithographic, intaglio and relief prints. The scope of subjects in Out of Print is expansive. The western landscape, elements of the natural world, animal favorites, commonplace objects, the human figure and the role of symbolism are investigated. The exhibit is being toured in Nevada by the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, through its Nevada Touring Initiative.
The exhibit artists represent a breadth of schools, ranging from the super-realism of Edie Roberson to the Mormon Art and Belief movement of Doug Himes. Many of the artists are now or have been college and university faculty, and most have received awards and recognition of significance.
“Goldwell wanted to open its Red Barn Art Center exhibition season with a printmaking show since printmaking will be an important part of the Barn’s artist workspace program,” said Museum President Charles Morgan. A beginning printmaking workshop is scheduled at the close of the exhibition June 14-15. Call or write the Museum for more information.
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Gary Ernest Smith
Guardian
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Red Barn Art Center Public Studio Program Announced |
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Want to get away?
The Red Barn Art Center, a 2,250 square foot desert studio for painters, sculptors, printmakers, theater groups and more, now available to the public at a nominal rate. Click here for more information.
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Goldwell Open Air Museum preserves and encourages artistic exploration in, and of, the Amargosa Desert
--an evocative landscape along the eastern edge of Death Valley National Park
We provide ongoing maintenance and conservation for the existing sculptures and
develop educational and cultural programs to enhance the visitor's experience of the site.
We explore this environment as artists ourselves and encourage others to do so as well.
Goldwell Open Air Museum
Near the ghost town of Rhyolite, Nevada
Mailing Address:
P.O. Box 405
Beatty, NV 89003
Telephone: (702) 870-9946 Fax: (702) 870-9946
Email
PHOTOGRAPHERS:
The Goldwell Open Air Museum is private property and its artworks on display are protected by copyright.
Non-commercial photography for personal use is permitted at any time.
Commercial photography, film and video recording requires permission from the property owners.
Download our Permission to Publish Form (in PDF) or call (702) 870-9946 for more information.
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This project is supported, in part, by grants from the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency,and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, the Nevada Humanities Committee, the Nevada Commission on Tourism, and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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