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Virgin Land, Wyoming (Rusty Under Saddle) Millee Tibbs
$1,200
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The symbol of the unicorn and the myth of the American West are equally cliched. Both have been drained of meaning through overuse, the unicorn through kitsch and the West through romanticized narratives of cowboys and the Wild West. The complexities of the history of the land are eclipsed by its photogenic beauty, which has been captured repeatedly by both amateur and professional image makers in service of the idyllic. Like the unicorn, the exoticism of the American West is something to be coveted, captured, displayed, and idealized. Both are imaginary products of desire. Much like the construction of myth of the West, the unicorn and its promise of virginal reward is only a horse with a horn.
About the Artist
Millee Tibbs is a landscape photographer who manipulates her images to raise questions about photography's historic associations with truth and landscape photography's tradition of the sublime.
News and
Notables
- Solo exhibition, Mount Analogue, Workspace, 2022
- Exhibited at Detroit Institute of Arts, 2022
- SAGA Artist in Residence, NORDPhotography, 2022
