The Mojave Project by Kim Stringfellow

Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada Las Vegas

Exhibition Dates: Feb 25 - July 23, 2022

Opening Reception:  March 25, 2022, 5 - 8 p.m., Remarks: 6:30 p.m.

The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art is proud to present The Mojave Project, an experimental transmedia curatorial project exploring the physical, geological, and cultural landscape of the Mojave Desert. 

Created by the Joshua Tree-based artist Kim Stringfellow, this exhibition immerses the viewer in a unique and complex landscape, discovering surprising connections between seemingly unrelated sites, themes, and subjects. By weaving interviews and reportage together with her own personal reflections, Stringfellow and her project contributors share stories that illuminate the diversity of people inhabiting the Mojave desert region.

The Mojave Project makes the artist’s research tangible through a multitude of curated objects and ephemera including books, archival documents, mineral specimens, and symbolic artifacts. The incredible multiplicity of the desert landscape is investigated through more than 80 photographs organized around The Mojave Project’s themes: Desert as Wasteland, Geological Time vs. Human Time, Sacrifice and Exploitation, Danger and Consequence, Space and Perception, Mobility and Movement, Desert as Staging Ground, and Transformation and Reinvention. 

A comfortable reading space invites the viewer to page through four collections of field dispatches in the printed Mojave Project Readers, Volumes I – IV. The voices of Mojave residents who were interviewed for the Readers can be heard in twenty-five audio tracks available for personal streaming throughout the exhibition. 

The Mojave Project runs from Feb 25 - July 23, 2022.  Entry to the museum is free. Details of the panels and guided tour will be posted on the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art website.