Museum acquisition by the Barrick Museum of Art, Las Vegas

The Marorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas has acquired Marisa J. Futernick’s video work Mirage.

Originally created for the museum’s 2023 exhibition Modern Desert Markings: An Homage to Las Vegas Area Land Art, curated by Katie Hoffman and Hikmet Sidney Loe, the work will now be part of the Barrick’s permanent collection.

”Marisa J. Futernick’s Mirage (2023) explores the region’s complicated sociopolitical histories when it comes to the land. Futernick’s video, poetically narrated and told through the artist’s rapturous still images, exposes the desecration, commodification, and governmental experimentation (atomic testing, mining) of the desert. ‘People can disappear out here,’ says Futernick in the twenty-four-minute-plus piece. ‘Things disappear, too. Stories. Histories. Species. Money. Time. Rights.’” Read more in Southwest Contemporary

”Futernick builds tone through temporality in the form of a slide show highlighting the shifting locations and experiences through a narrated slideshow, a catalog of region and emotion.” Read more in Double Scoop

Watch Mirage here
Explore the exhibition Modern Desert Markings in depth here