Red Desert

MARTIN STUPICH

PONTIAC OVERTURNED AND SHOT UPSoda Lake Flats, Carbon County, Wyoming. 2003, 17’ x 22”, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

SANDSTONE BOULDERS MIGRATING down wash, the Haystacks, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 2006, 24” x 30 “, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

“With a poetic eye and a keen intellect, Stupich composes images that convey the contemporary Red Desert

landscape and all that it holds. Geological remnants intermix with weather-worn historical artificats. The

expansive views of the terrain are off-set with documentations of abandoned, bulett-ridden cars…”

SUSAN MOLDENHAUER, Director & Chief Curator, the University of Wyoming Art Museum

YES NO MOTELJeffrey City, former uranium boom town known as Home on the Range, Fremont County, Wyoming, 2006 , 24” x 30”, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

RAIL ROAD ABANDONEDafter economic downturn. Carbon County, Wyoming, 2003, 17” x 22”, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

AUTOMOBILES AS RANCH DAMwith Boar’s Tusk volcanic plug, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 2007, 24 “ x 30”, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

RUSTING PIPELINE MERGING WITH ALKALI BEACHSoda Lake Flats, Carbon County, Wyoming, 2006, 24” x 30”, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

ABANDONED TRAILER AT CHAIN LAKES FLATSweetwater County, Wyoming, 2006, 24” x 30”, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

SAGE CREEK LOOP NEAR ATLANTIC RIMCarbon County, Wyoming, 2006, 30’’ x 40 “, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

“The Red Desert is one of those places that easily humble and even humiliate those who think they

know it. No one person knows this place. Many people know special small corners, feel at home on the

flanks of certain mountains or inside the particular maze of rock outcrops or up on Green Mountain or

the Haystacks looking south into the desert, but weather, rock slides, reworked roads, and sidetracks

can disorient even old hands”

ANNIE PROULX, from “Cautions on Venturing into the Desert”

ALKALI-ENCRUSTED CARCASSSoda Lake near Baroil, Carbon County, Wyoming, 2003, 17” x 22”, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

SANDSTONE LAG LITTERS AND LICHENdry wash in The Haystack Buttes, Sweetwater County, Wyoming, 2006, 24’ x 30”, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

ALKALI-ENCRUSTED CARCASS, FOURTH YEARSoda Lake near Baroil, Carbon County, Wyoming, 2007, 24” x 30”, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

ECHO OVERLOOK southwest corner of the Red Desert, Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado, 2007, 24” x 30 “, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper

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INSCRIPTIONS ATOP INDEPENDENCE ROCKnear where the Red Desert meets the Great Plains, Natrona County, Wyoming, 2006, 24” x 30“, digital pigment inkjet on fine art paper