Elliott Gallery is excited to present:

Indifferent West by Daniel Mirer

The kitsch, romantic views of the American Frontier. Wide-open spaces, idyllic scenery and sparsely-populated wilderness that makes up the bulk of the region. 

“In my "Indifferent West" project, I have been drawn to exploring how desert and water, environmental attitudes, perceptions, and values coexisted within the contemporary American Western landscape. The American Western space is a mythic, ever-changing American frontier; bringing the added concept of emptiness and water moves away from dualistic thinking in Western philosophical traditions. Emptiness plays an integral part as a formal aspect – but these spaces are never lifeless. 'Emptiness does not equate with nothingness, but rather with something and nothing simultaneously. Through memory, metaphor, and the imagined locations of the American West. I investigate landscapes and their locations from a particular point of view, where landscape involves all its topographical features and constructs cultural documentation of the new Western landscape. The photographs display the fragility and conceptual diversity of the modern Western American landscape.”

-Daniel Mirer

The exhibition will be on view from September to December 2025. More information to follow.