Mountain Monograms (A-M-E-R-I-C-A)
Video, photography, take-away poster
Featured as part of Desert Perspectives
Sept 19, 2026 - Sept 5, 2027
SMoCA
7374 E 2nd St, Scottsdale, Arizona 85251
About Desert Perspectives, from SMoCA:
Desert Perspectives is a yearlong, collection-centered exhibition that brings together a multigenerational group of artists working in—or regionally connected to—the Southwest whose practices engage deeply with the desert, not only as a physical landscape but as a layered site of ecological, cultural, historical, and political significance. Drawing from the museum’s permanent collection, alongside loans and new commissions, the exhibition traces more than a century of artistic responses to the deserts of the Southwest, examining how these landscapes have been represented, inhabited, transformed, and understood over time.
Organized by the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and curated by Keshia Turley, assistant curator. Support provided by Walter and Karla Goldschmidt Foundation.
Artists
Desert Perspectives features loans from David Emitt Adams, Julie Anand, Susanna Battin, Daniel Friedman, Joshua Haunschild, Jacob Meders, Rebecca Padilla, Damon Sauer, Jen Urso, Karima Walker, and Hyewon Yoon, alongside collection works by George Elbert Burr, Barbara Burton, Colin Chillag, Anne Coe, Gerard Curtis Delano, Rudy Fernandez, Dorothy Fratt, Dana Fritz, Denis Gillingwater, Graciela Iturbide, Luis Jimenez, Mark Klett, Merrill Mahaffey, Lon Megargee, Ed Mell, Matthew Moore, Gabriela Muñoz, Dan Namingha, Cara Romero, Shizu Saldamando, M. Jenea Sanchez, Billy Schenck, Fritz Scholder, Tom Strich, Lynn Taber, David Taylor, Andy Tsihnahjinnie, Patssi Valdez, Ellen Wagener, and Frank Ybarra.