Known for photographs that explore the mental and physical landscapes of Southern Nevada, Mikayla Whitmore comes to the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art with a series of new works that depict “the emotional space of learning to navigate while willfully getting lost.” By noticing unfamiliar materials in everyday settings, they conjure up those aspects of our lives that go unresolved and the fallible strategies we develop to cope with them. In Between a Rock and a Cliff, the artist treats photography as a process of archaeological discovery, unearthing questions about life, death, and their own queer identity.

Originally exhibited at The Workshop at The Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art from January 13 - February 8, 2020.