LANA Z CAPLAN: DUNITES
On View: September 4 – September 29, 2018
Reception: Friday, September 7, 6 – 8pm
“This project is located in the Guadalupe-Nipomo Dunes, an 18-mile coastal stretch north of Santa Barbara. These are the Dunes of the Chumash, a people erased by the Spanish Missionaries; the Dunes of Cecil B. DeMille’s ancient Egyptian Ten Commandments film sets; the Dunes of the Dunites, the artists, poets, nudists, and mystics living off the grid in the depression era; the Dunes of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams’ sensual perfection; the Dunes of the Lemurians’ energy vortex; and the Dunes of the current day Dunites: the ATV riders who tear through the endangered plant species and pollute the air with fine sand particulates. This sandy landscape has been a fertile tabula rasa for those who have come to this place before, leaving us a rich history, and now has become a political and environmental battleground.” - Lana Z Caplan
LANA Z CAPLAN
Lana Z Caplan is a multimedia artist who has done extensive work with historic photographic processes, video, film and interactive media installations. Her work has been exhibited and screened in solo and group exhibitions in cities around the world in cities such as Beijing, New York, San Francisco, San Juan, Edinburgh, Mexico City, Philadelphia, Boston, Manitoba, New Delphi, Tel Aviv, Valparaiso, and Barcelona.
Caplan’s work is represented in the collections of the Boston Public Library, the Boston Anthenaeum, the William Benton Museum, and Simmons College.
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