Gallery Talk with Emilia Mickevicius

Widening the Lens: Photography, Ecology, and the Contemporary Landscape, features the works of more than 15 contemporary lens-based artists. The range of works include black-and-white images and immersive installations.

The Phoenix Art Museum describes the exhibition as a compelling view into ecological trauma, our personal and collective relationships to land, and how photography can help us envision paths forward. Widening the Lens “presents a multi-faceted picture of intersections of landscape photography with themes of identity, climate change, and political life, offering multiple points of entry into these globally relevant issues.”

At this event, you'll have the opportunity to meet and hear perspectives about the exhibition from Emilia Mickevicius, the Norton Family Assistant Curator of Photography, a curatorial position shared by Phoenix Art Museum and the Center for Creative Photography.

This event is free and open to 25 attendees with registration here on Eventbrite. Membership is not required. Admission to Phoenix Art Museum is pay-what-you-wish on Wednesday evenings.

WE WILL MEET IN THE LOBBY AT 5:45PM, PLEASE BE PROMT.

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Images Above: Victoria Sambunaris, Untitled (Dune buggy), All American Canal, CA, 2021 © Victoria Sambunaris. Courtesy of the artist and Yancey Richardson, New York and the Phoenix Art Museum and Emilia Mickevicius (her portrait)

Image Below: Justine Kurland, Broadway (Joy), 2001; © Justine Kurland. Courtesy of the artist and the Phoenix Art Museum

About the Curator

Emilia Mickevicius is an art historian and curator who specializes in 20th century and contemporary U.S. photography. She joined the Phoenix Art Museum and CCP in 2023 after having served at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. In her role as curatorial assistant in SFMOMA’s photography department, she organized and contributed to exhibitions such as Sightlines: Photographs from the Collection (2022); Kinship: Photography and Connection (2023), the current SFMOMA exhibit, Sea Change: Photographs from the Collection (2023) among others.

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