National Gallery of Art Acquires work by Meghann Riepenhoff

Museum Acquisition
Meghann Riepenhoff's Ice #323 (27-39°F, Confluence of Shel Chelb Ephemeral Stream and Puget Sound, WA 02.24.22) (2022) has been acquired by the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. 
 
Ice #323 (27-39°F, Confluence of Shel Chelb Ephemeral Stream and Puget Sound, WA 02.24.22) was created in the waters of the Puget Sound in Washington State, in a particular location where an ephemeral stream forms in times of high precipitation and flows into the brackish waters of the Sound. The two sources' disparate chemistry results in different freezing points, creating ice crystals that form and melt at differing rates as the water impacts the paper's surface.
 
Riepenhoff's oeuvre is a record of its environment's state at a particular time, reflecting the ephemerality of weather conditions and the ever-changing nature of the Earth's climate at large. Every work implicitly asks viewers to consider their unseen impact on the shifting natural world around them, made visible through Riepenhoff’s photographic explorations.
June 4, 2024