Photographers John Divola and Anthony Hernandez share an interest in depicting remote and abandoned spaces in pursuit of the contemporary landscape. On Monday, October 8 at 6 p.m., Sheldon Museum of Art will present a conversation of the two photographers moderated by Toby Jurovics, Joslyn Art Museum’s Chief Curator and Richard & Mary Holland Curator of American Western Art.
Works by Divola and Hernandez are on view in the current Sheldon exhibition Approaching Landscape, and a photo by Hernandez is featured in For Freedoms: In the future days … .
John Divola works primarily with photography and digital imaging. While he has approached a broad range of subjects he is currently moving through the landscape looking for the oscillating edge between the abstract and the specific. Divola, earned a BA from California State University, Northridge and an MA and MFA from University of California, Los Angeles. He has received numerous awards including individual artist fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship. Divola's work has been featured in more than seventy solo exhibitions in the United States, Mexico, Europe, Asia, and Australia and is included in major museum collections.
Hernandez took up photography in earnest in the early 1970s after returning to U.S. from Vietnam where he served as an Army medic. His work has developed from street portraiture to documentation of human presence in the landscape. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the American Academy in Rome, the Charles Pratt Memorial Award, a Romthe DG Bank Förderpreis Fotografie from the Sprengel Museum Hannover, and the Higashikawa Prize.