Window Dressing LII, Barry Stone and Jason Reed: BOOM AND DUST
Artist Statement:
BOOM AND DUST depicts a 40-mile stretch of highway between Midland and Odessa, Texas. This roadway serves as the backbone of the oil industry in the Permian Basin, the most productive oil field in the world. Inspired by Ed Ruscha, Reed and Stone made hundreds of photographs from the back of a pickup truck of the unrelenting scroll of mancamps, pumpjacks, and oil outfitters collectively known as the "Petroplex." The work is accompanied by a soundscape of acoustic guitar improvisations made in the former company town of Texon in the shadow of the Santa Rita no.1 and layered with field recordings of gas flares, produced water lakes, and lap steel which will be heard during the duration of the exhibition.
About the artists:
Barry Stone is a Professor of Photography at Texas State University and holds a BA in Biology and an MFA in Studio Art from the University of Texas. Stone’s work explores the roles sound, image, and materiality play in creating notions of our past and imagined futures. Stone played in the Trance Syndicate bands johnboy, Desafindo and Mountains in Stars. He is the author of Daily, in a Nimble Sea (Silas Finch) and Lost Pines (Sunset Commission), is the founder of Porch Swing Orchestra, and represented by Klaus von Nichtsaggend Gallery.
www.barrystone.com, https://www.instagram.com/barry_stone_/
Jason Reed is a Professor of Photography at Texas State University and holds a BA in Geography from the University of Texas and an MFA in Photography from Illinois State University. With a background in geography, his work centers on the intersecting histories, ecologies, ideals, and dilemmas as they play out on the southern end of the Great Plains, where the desert meets the prairie. In 2023, he was co-editor of Otherwise, It Would Be Just Another River with Molly Sherman (Spector Books) and in 2022, he published Field Work (Victory in the Wilderness Museum).
www.jasonreedphoto.com, https://www.instagram.com/jasonreedphoto
About the Window Dressing Project:
Window Dressing highlights the work of new members, emerging, local, and underrepresented artists with short-run shows on view while the main gallery is closed for installation. Window Dressing artists will explore the potential of our storefront window space, experimenting with the possibilities of limitation. Exhibitions are on view 24/7 through the gallery’s front glass
Event Links
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