By Stuart Klipper
Located in San Francisco, CA
Artist: Stuart Klipper (American, 1941- )
Title: Vulcan Arunel, Costa Rica
Year: 1989
Medium: C Print (Chromogenic print)
Size: 12 x 38 inches image, 16 x 44 inches sheet, 18 x 45 inches matted. Unframed
Signature: Signed, titled, dated, artist’s stamp on reverse
Condition: Very good
This photograph depicts the landmark volcano Vulcan Arunal in Costa Rica. It is a chromogenic print, also called a C-print on Kodak paper. It was done in 1989 when Klipper visited Costa Rica. He said this about the photographs that came from that experience: “- In the Rain Forest: The Specifications of Life, photographs made deep inside the rain forest preserves of Costa Rica; these forests are essential to planetary health and threatened everywhere; I wanted to ‘swim’ in the densest soup of DNA anywhere. [1989]” The photograph is in very good condition. The mat is in very good condition.
Stuart Klipper was born in the Bronx in 1941. He then lived in Stockholm, Sweden, moved to Minneapolis in 1970 and currently resides there. He has made six visits to Antarctica to photograph, and has also worked in Greenland, Iceland, Svalbard, Alaska and Lapland (in the area irradiated by the Chernobyl disaster). Other major forays have taken him across Northern Australia; the deserts of Israel and Sinai; the tropical rain forests of Costa Rica, Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego; and Sri Lanka and Pakistan. He has logged many thousands of miles at sea, photographing on all of the Earth's oceans... and seas. For over 30 years, he has made photographs in all 50 states, distilling and crystallizing the defining characteristics of American regions. Other undertakings include extensively photographing the First World War cemeteries and memorials of the Western Front, major physics and astronomy research installations throughout the U.S. and the Anasazi ruins of the Southwest. His photographs have been exhibited in, and collected by, major museums in the U.S. and overseas; foremost, the Museum of Modern Art, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, the Walker Art Center, The Jewish Museum, the Israel Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the Kunsthalle Bonn and the Moderna Museet. He has been the recipient of several major grants, including two each from the Guggenheim Foundation and the Bush Foundation, and three each from the McKnight Foundation and the Minnesota State Arts Board. He is a recipient of the U.S. Navy's Antarctic Service Medal. He was also visiting professor, Art Department, Colorado College, 1978 to 2008.
Solo exhibitions
• Disparate Geographies, Schmidt Dean Gallery in Philadelphia, 1998.
• Sixteen polar photographs, Arktis -Antarktis, the Kunsthalle des Deutschesrepublic, Bonn, Germany. 1998
• Cardinal Points, at the University of Iowa Museum of Art. (Photographs from polar regions: Antarctica and Greenland, the tropical rain forests, the desert regions of Israel and the Sinai, the agricultural Great Plains)-- an exhibition catalogue was published. 1998
• At Sea Near the Poles, at the Spencer Gallery, Wickford, R.I. 1999
• Antarctica 99/00, Yancey Richardson Gallery, NYC, 2000
• Selected Antarctic Work, Berler Gallery, Washington D.C., 2001 (Also shown in Denver and Christchurch, N.Z.
• Selected American photographs, The Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Va., 2001
• Photographs from the Arctic and Antarctica, Smith-Dean Gallery, Phila., PA, 2001
• Wyoming, Univ. of Wyoming Museum Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, 2001/02
• In the Australian Outback, Gallery 360, Minneapolis, 2002
• The United States, Candace Perich Gallery, Katonah, NY, 2002
• Rock art, bush fire, termite mounds and other aspects of the outback of the Top End of Australia, Gallery 360, Mpls.,2002
• Portraits about Pakistan, 1987, Icebox Gallery, Mpls., 2002
• Antarctic 1: Views Along Antarctica’s First Highway, Center for Land Use Interpretation, Los Angeles, 2002
• The Louisiana Purchase, Groveland Gallery, Minneapolis & Olson-Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, 2003
• Selected photographs, Medtronics Corp. corporate headquarters, Minneapolis, 2006
• Antarctica, Electrolift Artworks, Minneapolis, Minn. 2006 (+ other venues)
• 20 Years of photographing Louisiana, The Ogden Museum, New Orleans, 2008
• Antarctic Photographs, City Museum of Charleston, S.C., 2009
• Local Places – Remote Terrains, Olson Larsen Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa, 2009
• The Dead Sea Region, Israel, The Basilica of St. Mary, Minneapolis, 2010
Group exhibitions
• Photography of New York City, Minneapolis Institute of Art. 1998
• Sea Change, The Center for Creative Photography, Univ. of Arizona, Tucson. (An eponymous book was published in conjunction with the exhibition and is in national distribution), 1998/99
• American farms and farming, Candace Perish Gallery, Katonah, NY. (Traveled to Washington D. C.), 1998/99
• Views from the Edge of the World, Marlborough Gallery, NYC. 1999
• Claiming Title: Australian Aboriginal Artists and the Land, St, Olaf & Carleton Colleges, Northfield, Minn., 1999
• The Infinite and the Intimate; Waterscapes of Stuart Klipper and Frank Gohlke, Dorsky Gallery, N.Y.C. 1999
• An Eclectic Focus: Photographs from the Vernon Collection ( + catalogue), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, 1999
• Aqua, Gallerie Thierry Marlat, Paris, France 1999
• Restructuring the Prairie, Grinnell College, 1999
• The Mural as Muse, Deutsches Bank Gallery, NYC, 2000
• earth sky, Jackson Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, 2000
• Western Panoramas, Huntington Museum, Sta. Barbara, CA, 2001
• I Love New York (W. T. C benefit), NYC, 2001
• Melodrama, inaugural show, ARTIUM, Vitoria, Spain, 2002
• Contemporary Desert Photography...
Category
1980s Naturalistic Color Photography
