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YANCEY RICHARDSON GALLERY VICTORIAN SAMBUNARIS YET ALL REMAINS

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NEW YORK CITY — The Yancey Richardson Gallery presents “Yet All Remains,” an exhibition of photographs by Victoria Sambunaris that explore the intersection of civilization, geology and natural history particular to the United States.

Accompanied by John McPhee’s book, Annals of the Former World, Sambunaris set out on a cross-country journey to explore the relationship between man, nature and evolution. Sambunaris ultimately drove 11,000 miles through the heart of the country over a period of 12 weeks; the resulting works speak to both the country’s geological evolution, as well as to its embrace of Manifest Destiny.

In “Yet All Remains” Sambunaris maintains her ongoing consideration of industry, commerce and human intervention in the landscape. Like her earlier images of mines in the Nevada desert or the pipeline snaking through an edenic Alaskan valley, her current photographs of coal mines, dams and housing developments elicit questions of land use and the harnessing of natural resources.

Sambunaris’s coolly conceived images of the American West acknowledge the contemporary influence of the new topographic tradition from the early 1970s, as well as the Nineteenth Century expeditionary photographs of Timothy O’Sullivan and Carleton Watkins. Like these objective, but highly descriptive images, Sambunaris’s photographs employ a rich visual taxonomy that nevertheless remains open to interpretation.

Born in 1964, Sambunaris graduated from the Yale University MFA program in 1999. Her work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts; the National Museum of Women in the Arts; as well as the Lannan Foundation, Santa Fe, N.M.,which granted her a Foundation Fellowship in Marfa, Texas.

Yancey Richardson is at 535 West 22nd Street. For information, 646-230-9610 or www.yanceyrichardson.com.