'TILTING THE BASIN' CELEBRATES THE STATE OF NEVADA ART

7/29/2016

Katie Lewis 2067 II SE – 2167 II NE 2016 Paper 120” x 150” (20) 30 x 30 in. drawings . Photo courtesy Nevada Museum of Art

Tilting the Basin
Contemporary Art of Nevada
August 5 through October 23
Nevada Museum of Art

SOUTH
Chris Bauder
Mark Brandvik
JW Caldwell
Matthew Couper
Gig Depio
Justin Favela
Sush Machida Gaikotsu
Shawn Hummel
Wendy Kveck
JK Russ
David Ryan
David Sanchez Burr
Sean Slattery
Brent Sommerhauser
Brent Holmes
Krystal Ramirez
Rachel Stiff

NORTH
Megan Berner
Rebekah Bogard
Galen Brown
Erik Burke
Nate Clark
Tim Conder
Joseph DeLappe
Russell Dudley
Jeffrey Erickson
Jen Graham
Ahren Hertel
Katty Hoover
Eunkang Koh
Nick Larsen
Katie Lewis
Sarah Lillegard
Omar Pierce
Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada is co-curated by Nevada Museum of Art Curatorial Director and Curator of Contemporary Art JoAnne Northrup, and Las Vegas-based art advisor Michele Quinn. Tilting the Basin will travel to Las Vegas in 2017.
Long Form Press Release.

FIELD NOTES: Artists separated by landmass while sharing a state will have their works appear together in Tilting the Basin: Contemporary Art of Nevada beginning August 5 in Reno, Nevada. Billed as “the most accomplished work being created by more than thirty artists living and working across Nevada,” the selections will include painting, sculpture, installation, photography, interactive, and sound art. Programming will feature Galen Brown, Justin Favela, Katie Lewis, David Ryan, Brent Sommerhauser and Rachel Stiff. Perhaps in 20 years this exhibition of contemporary artists responding to a range of impulses, from pop culture, environment, and identity politics, will be mounted as a retrospective of ambition curatorship. For now, Tilting the Basin is Nevada Museum of Art's opening promise to shape the aesthetic identity of the state makes it a benchmark exhibition, even before it opens.