A unique photography exhibit featuring both the above-ground and below-ground beauty and diversity of our Nebraska prairies and plains is on view from August 31 – September 30.
Opens Thursday August 31 at noon.
Fri. Sept 1 from noon to 8pm with a reception beginning at 5pm.
Otherwise Th-Sat, Noon to 5pm during September.
The variety, strangeness and beauty of nematodes, microscopic worms present in all habitats on the planet, are featured in electron micrographs created at UN-L. Color images of above-ground prairie landscapes are paired with images of these below-ground creatures.
Dr. Tom Powers, Becky Higgins, Kris Powers, Dr. Peter Mullin, Ethan Freese & Tracy Tucker are among those contributing to the exhibition. Viewers will learn more about research into some of the 5 million species of nematodes and their impact on plants and animal life.
Images are available for purchase at various sizes and prices.
Views include Lincoln’s Pioneers Park, the Lancaster County Prairie Corridor, Nine-Mile Prairie, Spring Creek Audubon Center near Denton, Wachiska Audubon’s Tim Knott Prairie by Omaha, Willa Cather Prairie in Red Cloud, the Switzer Ranch, Crescent Lake National Wildlife Refuge and the Alkaline Lakes in the western Nebraska Sandhills.
“No Words,” an exhibition of landscape photographs by Roger Bruhn will be the final August pop-up show at WallSpace-LNK. A Fourth Friday opening reception with refreshments will run from 4:00-8:00 p.m. August 25. Saturday August 26th hours will be 12:00-5:00 p.m.
Bruhn notes, “Most photography today is focused more on ideas than the pleasure of the visual. I have nothing against ideas. But when it comes to a visual art like photography, I want my work to please the eye. Life is a desire, not a meaning. These photographs are about seeing, not about ideas.” Indeed, both the color and the black and white images made between 1968 and 2023 in this exhibit focus on places both near and far that transcend their subject matter.
Viewers will share the photographer’s sense of discovery in landscapes throughout the American West. “I don’t really search out my subject matter, Bruhn said.
“I just wait, and it finds me.”
“No Words” images are available for viewing and purchase Friday, August 25 from 4:00-8:00 p.m. and Saturday, August 26 from 12:00-5:00 p.m. More information at wallspace-lnk.com or on Facebook.
This exhibition (two days only – Aug 11 & 12) is drawn from a portfolio of over 100 archival gelatin silver prints of old barns and farmhouses made by Michael Farrell in a project spanning the years 1998 to 2006. In this ongoing exploration of the southeast Nebraska countryside the photographer and his partner Lynne Ireland traveled thousands of miles of county roads, exposed many hundreds of sheets of 4×5 or 5×7 film, and noted the locations of hundreds of abandoned farm buildings.
“Requiem for the Home Place,” a selection of traditional gelatin silver photographic prints, matted and framed, will be on display and available for purchase August 11 and 12 at WallSpace-LNK. Signed and framed as well as unframed original prints are available for purchase at a significant discount both days.
“Photography is about memory, loss and desire. These photographs are about worlds and lives no longer viable but whose ashes and bones still lie above the surface reminding us of what once was.” – from the essay by Michael Farrell accompanying the 2006 exhibition. See both the prints and the essay at WallSpace-LNK on August 11, noon to 8 (reception at 4pm to close) & Aug. 12, noon to 5pm.
