Reviews
Clark Gallery – Wheat and Water at Clark Gallery
In 1991, Don Kirby happened to be driving across eastern Washington on Route 2, and he shot one photograph. Just one. But he did not forget the carefully seeded and plowed fields under the wide skies of this wheat country.
Read more »Kevin Francis – Anasazi Exhibit Review
Don’t let the photograph in the window display showing an unexciting row of black handprints on white rock that could be straight off the set of The River Wild keep you from venturing inside.
Read more »Leah Ollman – Wheatcountry Exhibit Review
Wheat fields may sound like a hopelessly prosaic subject for an artist in the late ’90s, but Don Kirby’s photographs at Craig Krull Gallery remind us that art is all in the how rather than in the what.
Read more »PDN – Out West
A long-term project photographing the sea of grass stretching across the American West presented self-taught landscape photographer Don Kirby new challenges—in the field and in the darkroom.
Read more »The New Mexican Review
The landscape of the American West is frequently thought of in terms of the dependence of human beings on resources they can cultivate in the soil.
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