Salt Lake City
June 26 – September 19, 2026
Drawing inspiration from Gary Snyder’s Pulitzer Prize–winning collection Turtle Island, Eleanor Mahin Thorp’s exhibition Snowtrickle, feldspar, dirt explores the land as a living entity shaped by both natural forces and human intervention. Through paintings informed by the geothermal activity and geological formations of the Yellowstone Basin, Thorp examines the Earth’s rhythms, seismic energies, and evolving ecological systems.
The exhibition considers landscape as both a physical and political archive. References to mining, public land policy, logging, and the histories embedded in place names become part of a broader investigation into how humans interpret, alter, and narrate the land. Drawing on her Iranian heritage alongside observations of the American West, Thorp explores the intersections of mythology, geology, and cultural memory.
Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
20 S. West Temple
Salt Lake City, UT 84101
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