The Pollock Gallery of the Division of Art at SMU’s Meadows School of the Arts presents “Consuming (Interests): Photographs from Taos, New Mexico by Debora Hunter” an exhibition on view through October 12, 2013.
Hunter, an associate professor of photography at SMU Meadows, has photographed the cultural landscape of Taos, New Mexico, for the past 10 years. Through careful recording of domestic and commercial architecture within the majestic sweep of sky and land, she reframes the question of man versus nature. Hunter believes this inquiry is increasingly urgent as consumer culture bumps hard against diminishing natural resources. Edited from her large archive of photographs, the exhibit includes images of “abandoned gas stations, drought-blighted gardens, self-storage rental units, ramshackle manufactured modular homes, landfilled garbage dumps, foreclosed faux adobe luxury houses and litter-strewn mesas. www.smu.edu/Meadows
