New exhibition shows you the Grand Canyon like you've never seen it before

Works by seven artists from six countries comprise the exhibition.

PUBLISHED OCT 5, 2024

Tseng Kwong Chi, Grand Canyon, Arizona, 1987, gelatin silver print, 20" x 16" paper size (15" x 15" image size).

Phoenix, Arizona: A new exhibition entitled 'Grand Canyon: From Dreams to Memory' will have a public opening on Saturday, October 19, from 1pm-3pm at the Lisa Sette Gallery in Phoenix. Several of the artists will be in attendance.

Artists featured in 'Grand Canyon: From Dreams to Memory' depict their experiences of this vast geological chasm through global backgrounds and diverse landscapes, from the new aesthetics of contemporary identity to timeless spiritual and planetary connections.

Carlos Estévez, Templo de las miradas, 2024, ink and tempera on paper, 11" x 4" unframed. (Courtesy of the artist, Lisa Sette Gallery, and The Grand Canyon Conservancy)

Works by seven artists from six countries comprise the exhibition: Enrique Chagoya (Mexico), Tseng Kwong Chi (Hong Kong), Binh Danh (Vietnam), Carlos Estévez (Cuba), Siri Devi Khandavilli (India), Arno Rafael Minkkinen (Finland), and Reynier Leyva Novo (Cuba).

Siri Devi Khandavilli, 398.2 (Thirty Six Views) (detail), 2024, wood and bronze, 10" x 13" each framed.

Each of the seven artists included in 'Grand Canyon: From Dreams to Memory', examine this magical site with dualities in mind: the new and the past; the transcendent and the transitional; the spectacle of the cosmos and the experiences of humanity.

Similar to the new United States citizens who are regularly sworn in at the Grand Canyon's Mather Point Amphitheater, each of these artists brings the unique values of their background, culture, and media to the two billion year-old geological work in progress.

The exhibition will run till December 28.