Upcoming Exhibitions
Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke
August 16 — October 26, 2008
A major mid-career retrospective of the artist Frank Gohlke organized by the Amon Carter Museum will travel to the Center August 16 — October 26, 2008 in the special exhibition, Accommodating Nature: The Photographs of Frank Gohlke. A leading figure in American landscape photography, Gohlke takes pictures that explore how we live and build our lives surrounded by a natural world that rarely meets our ideals and expectations. Whether photographing Wichita Falls, Texas, where he grew up; the grain elevators that punctuate the vast spaces of the Midwest; changes brought by the 1980 volcanic eruption of Mount St. Helens; or the neighborhoods of Queens, New York, Gohlke’s camera deftly captures the tension between humanity and nature, exploring how people adapt to the forces of nature both great and small, even within the confines of their own backyards.