HOOD MUSEUM OF ART PRESENTS SUBHANKAR BANERJEE’S ARCTIC VIEWS

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HANOVER, N.H. — The Hood Museum of Art presents the exhibition, “Subhankar Banerjee: Resource Wars in the American Arctic,” on view through May 20.

An installation of four monumental habitat photographs taken five years ago when Subhankar Banerjee spent almost two years in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, photographing this remote region in northeastern Alaska in all four seasons. His work there coincided with the push by oil companies and the current US administration to open up the oil and gas reserves on the coastal plain to drilling.

During his travels over nearly 4,000 miles of the 19.5-million-acre refuge by foot, raft, kayak and snowmobile, he stayed in interior and coastal villages with both Gwich’in Athabascan and Inupiat families, respectively, absorbing their close and intricate relationships to the northern environment and the birds and animals that thrive there.

The Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College is on Wheelock Street. Visit www.hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu or call 603-646-2808 for more information.