Kim Stringfellow
The New River near Brawley, CA2001, printed 2005

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Artist or Maker: Kim Stringfellow
United States, born 1963 in San Mateo, CA, active in Joshua Tree, CA
Title: The New River near Brawley, CA
Date Made: 2001, printed 2005
Medium: Dye coupler print
Dimensions: Image (Sight): 19 7/16 × 24 7/16 in. (49.37 × 62.07 cm) Frame: 21 7/16 × 25 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (54.45 × 64.77 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Stephen A. Kanter Trust
Accession Number: M.2020.45.108
Classification: Prints
Collecting Area: Photography
Curatorial Notes: The New River near Brawley, CA is from the project Greetings from the Salton Sea, in which Kim Stringfellow explores this ecologically challenged area in Southern California—an infamous inland body of water formed when the Colorado River levees broke below the California-Mexico border. An unnaturally formed sea (formerly the Salton Sink), it was unsustainable and slowly began to dry out. Adding to the degradation was the New River. Originating from a volcanic lake in Mexico, it has been transformed into a river of chemical runoff from farming, sewage, and industrial waste. Stringfellow depicts the artificial foam that forms a natural pattern as the river travels north from Mexicali, through Calexico, toward the Salton Sea.

Eve Schillo

2024

Not on view

No image

Artist or Maker: Kim Stringfellow
United States, born 1963 in San Mateo, CA, active in Joshua Tree, CA
Title: The New River near Brawley, CA
Date Made: 2001, printed 2005
Medium: Dye coupler print
Dimensions: Image (Sight): 19 7/16 × 24 7/16 in. (49.37 × 62.07 cm) Frame: 21 7/16 × 25 1/2 × 1 1/2 in. (54.45 × 64.77 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Stephen A. Kanter Trust
Accession Number: M.2020.45.108
Classification: Prints
Collecting Area: Photography
Curatorial Notes: The New River near Brawley, CA is from the project Greetings from the Salton Sea, in which Kim Stringfellow explores this ecologically challenged area in Southern California—an infamous inland body of water formed when the Colorado River levees broke below the California-Mexico border. An unnaturally formed sea (formerly the Salton Sink), it was unsustainable and slowly began to dry out. Adding to the degradation was the New River. Originating from a volcanic lake in Mexico, it has been transformed into a river of chemical runoff from farming, sewage, and industrial waste. Stringfellow depicts the artificial foam that forms a natural pattern as the river travels north from Mexicali, through Calexico, toward the Salton Sea.

Eve Schillo

2024