March 9 - 9, 2024
From Foltz Fine Art:
“DIG: Notes on Field and Family, a new book and exhibition by photographer Sarah Wilson is a meditative journey through family connections, geographic memory, and deep time. This work was inspired by the artist’s grandfather, paleontologist Dr. John A. Wilson, who was a professor of geology and paleontology at the University of Texas. Before he died, he gave Sarah three black metal boxes filled with faded 35mm Kodachrome slides. These teaching slides featured images of geologic charts, rock formations, bone fragments and skulls — photos from his annual digs in West Texas and Big Bend National Park. Holding them up to the light, Wilson realized that she and her grandfather had photographed some of the exact same desert landscapes, from the same vantage points, only fifty years apart. This shared connection ignited an adventure and a long-term project.
Wilson now joins paleontologists on digs each winter in the Big Bend area, searching for bones and photographing the same stark desert landscapes featured in those vintage 35mm transparencies. But her work goes beyond an homage to her grandfather. Sarah’s conceptual self-portraits in the style of geology and anatomy charts, combine the personal and the scientific. Her images of Texas badlands, wheat-pasted on wood are both sculptural and photographic. Wilson’s work is an homage to an origin story that reaches beyond traceable generations. Each bone collected is evidence of the slow, significant work of evolution, serving as a bracing reminder that we, as humans, sit at the very end of that timeline.
This FOTOFEST exhibition will coincide with another photographic investigation into Far West Texas and the Big Bend area by Marathon based photographer, James Evans. Each artist presents a unique vision for this singular place, rooted in landscape, memory, history and experience.
Opening Reception: Sarah Wilson | DIG
March 9th, 6-8pm
Sarah Wilson: Artist Talk & Book Signing
April 13, 3-4PM
Closing Reception: Sarah Wilson | DIG
April 13, 4-6pm”
Reception: March 10, 2024 | 12–2 am
Artist talk: April 13, 2024 | 8–9 pm
Artist Talk & Book Signing
Closing: April 13, 2024 | 9–11 pm
Sarah Wilson: DIG: Notes on Field and Family
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