Blazing Light

A preeminent artist of her generation, Mimi Plumb (American, born 1953) has photographed the human-altered landscape for five decades to conjure the enduring issues of our day. Blazing Light, the artist’s first museum exhibition, brings together her three most important bodies of work that collectively contemplate the anxieties of contemporary American culture: the combined effects of climate change, unbridled capitalism, and ceaseless military conflict. As a teenager in the 1970s, Plumb began photographing during a time of rapid land development coupled with global political and economic ins…