BASALT
Lara Almarcegui
EXHIBITION December 11 - January 28, 2022
OPENING Saturday, December 11, 7PM
ARTIST TALK Thursday, January 13, 5PM
Netherlands-based artist Lara Almarcegui explores the material aspects of land and urban space. Her work draws attention to mineral extraction and mineral rights and the raw materials used in the construction of our cityscapes.
Basalt is a massive pile of rock recently blasted from a quarry on the northwestern corner of the Snake River Plain. The basalt began as lava released 15 million years ago from what we now call the “Yellowstone Hotspot”. Placing 150 tons of the broken basalt in the gallery, Almarcegui offers the material a position in the dialogue regarding its fate.
Almarcegui comes to Boise as a participant in Holding What Can't Be Held, a project that invites artists to contemplate the site of the Idaho National Laboratory and its radioactive legacy. [MORE]
Lara Almarcegui
EXHIBITION December 11 - January 28, 2022
OPENING Saturday, December 11, 7PM
ARTIST TALK Thursday, January 13, 5PM
Netherlands-based artist Lara Almarcegui explores the material aspects of land and urban space. Her work draws attention to mineral extraction and mineral rights and the raw materials used in the construction of our cityscapes.
Basalt is a massive pile of rock recently blasted from a quarry on the northwestern corner of the Snake River Plain. The basalt began as lava released 15 million years ago from what we now call the “Yellowstone Hotspot”. Placing 150 tons of the broken basalt in the gallery, Almarcegui offers the material a position in the dialogue regarding its fate.
Almarcegui comes to Boise as a participant in Holding What Can't Be Held, a project that invites artists to contemplate the site of the Idaho National Laboratory and its radioactive legacy. [MORE]
Previous Exhibitions
5TH ANNUAL
HOLDING WHAT CAN’T BE HELD
October 9 – October 30, 2021
Teal Gardner, Pato Hebert, Huma Aatifi, Lara Almarcegui, Saratops, Jeremiah Day, Tim Andreae
Mahdia Danishyar, 16
DOSTI Club Leader, Student Activist
Founding Fossils: Adams vs. Jefferson, watercolor on paper, 2016
Holding What Can’t Be Held
September 14th – November 10th, 2019
Irina Novarese, Eli Craven, Kristen Cooper, Uli Westphal, Jonathan Sadler & Luke Batten (new catalogue), Astri Snodgrass, Bryan Moore, Candace Rood, Alek De Dochas and Tim Andreae
Software Garden
Rory Pilgrim
June 29 - August 24, 2019
REVERSE-REBIRTH
Han Seok Hyun
Est. July 28, 2018
On permanent view at Idaho Botanical Garden
Woodsmoke
Troy Passey / J. Reuben Appelman
April 5 - 28, 2018
Not Somewhere Else, But Here
Wytske van Keulen
with Joost Conijn, Lucas Lenglet,
Thomas Manneke and Tim Smith (Harp)
May 20-July 9, 2016
Holding What Can't Be Held
July 2 - July 18, 2015
Laura Ahola-Young, Jonathan Saddler, Catherine Reinhardt, April VanDeGrift, Thea Belecz, Elijah Jensen, John McMahon, Alissa Salimore, Tim Norton, Tim Andreae and Jeri Ann Sabin
