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Movement along the faults since late Tertiary time has raised the ranges relative to the valleys and greatly extended the earth's crust

Isaiah 40:4 Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

Graben: An elongated, downthrown block bounded by two steeply dipping normal faults produced in an area of crustal extension.

Horst: An elongated block of high topographic relief that is bounded on two sides by steep normal faults produced in an area of crustal extension

Click here; http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=gNesakkMeg4

Reno or Bust

Rolling into Tetanus Junction in my neon 49 Studebaker, I was never so
illuminated. The neon in your eyes reflected the coin-operated glow of
Reno in my rear-view mirror. Nevada, I have never looked back in anger-- only
relief.

Mr Bacon
Native Son
Alkali and Sage-fed

Reno Envy

clothiers in the biggest little city

Battle Born and Breaking Hearts (since 1864)

the Nevada Museum of Art Triennial Exhibition

July through Oct. 2005

Reno Nv.

This show represents the best art Nevada in the 21st century has to offer

Picture by Dave Robert

Artemisia Nevadensis, (var. battle bornii)

Composition #1864

from the University of Nevada, Reno collection

From the Collection of Alannah Woodie

President of the Nevada Rock Art Foundation

Carson City Nevada

Installation for "Mines and Ranches, Neon Art from Nevada's Blistered Hide" at the Sierra Arts Gallery, Reno Nv.

Sierra Arts Gallery blazes with High Voltage Art

Local artist Jeffrey Johnson brightens the long cold solstitial nights with Mines and Ranches, Neon Art from Nevada's Blistered Hide, November 11th through December 27th at the Sierra Arts Gallery at the Riverside Lofts, 17 S. Virginia st. Reno. Opening reception Friday November 15, 5 till 7. The exhibit is free to the public.

Mr. Johnson came to Reno from Winnemucca in 1994 with a unique perspective on the invaluable treasures found in our fair state. Along with an uncontrollable urge to manipulate the elements and forces of nature the artist is hell bent to drag the post-modern art world kicking and screaming into the 21st century. Utilizing the latest 1920's technology as natural as the air we breath and last night's sunset, the reception will star first of it's kind neon on ice, neon in Jell-o, poetry and music. Participants and spectators are urged to come disguised as your favorite Nevadan. This art show is a celebration of the Great State of Nevada, Battle Born and kicking ass since 1864.

The exhibit will feature illuminated displays using found art and ready-mades from some unlikely sources around and about the state. Basin and Range, a still life sculpture, exploits a kitchen sink, a bullet ridden stove, neon and dry lake mud to remind us of the geological and archeological nuggets we encounter on our trips to the outskirts of our sagebrush towns. Mondriaan leaving Beowawe, Composition no. 156 is a special work involving neon and barbwire that takes inspiration from the revered Dutch artist and applies it to a Nevadans point of view.

This artist's ultimate goal is to prove to the ignorant that Nevada is not a wasteland of desert, culture or society.

The exhibit is sponsored by Sierra Arts and funded by ...blah blah blah...........many agencies and neonartnv.com

For more information, call Sierra Arts at 329-arts.

This show has the dubious distinction of being the first Dada art show in Northern Nevada this century.

Question 3: What is Dada?

Dada is one of the mothers of all art movements contemporary with Fauvism and Cubism and a direct result of the horrors of the war to end all wars, (The 1917 model). The word Dada is totally "Credo quia absurdum". Dada was a very loose association between many disillusioned and disenfranchised artists in post war Europe especially from France, Germany, Holland, Switzerland and the United States. Dada inspired all the best of the 20th century modern art schools including Minimalism, Pop art, Abstract expressionism, Theatre of the Absurd and Surrealism. Dada is not just visual art but includes, poetry, music, drama; Anything that might force you to reassess your sense of reality. As Frank Zappa has said, "You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipping cream."

In three words, Dada is Anti-art.

Any way, Let me explain why I think my show is the best of it's kind and try to explain the details.

1). Basin and Range: Neon Hills, a bullet ridden stove with a broiler shaped like Our Fair state, Playa mud and the kitchen sink promotes the absurd idea that abandoned mass-produced commercial objects can be considered artworks simply through the choice of the artist. Also it is ugly. Dada was the first group to declare that art no longer needed to be pretty. These are objects free from potential aesthetic value. This work also undermines the assumption that skill and uniqueness are necessary components of a work of art. Photo by Michael Marcum

2). "Coming to grips with space in practical terms; Countercomposition no. 2003 A vacuum named Vegas that sucks everything good out of this state when you turn it on is a good example of the implicit sexuality of mechanical functions.

3).Mondriaan leaving Beowawe Composition # UX339 is actually just neon squares in primary colors and barbwire on a field of light brown. Light brown is of course, one of Nevada's primary colors. This one is ugly too, but a lot of work. Actually the de Stijl movement Piet Mondriaan is the most famous representative of, is not Dadaist but they partied together. Picture by Michael Marcum

6).Meltdown, Ice bolted to neon shaped like Nevada with the nuclear sign. This is an assault on complacency. And it makes a drippy mess Picture by Michael Marcum

7).And I looked and behold , a white horse. This represents solidarity with the other art tribes in our fair city. And a flagrant attempt at commerciality. Dadaists were the first to say art is not just for the rich anymore. Making art and enjoying art should be for everyone believe it or not. Art is still not just for the rich in 2003. Also this piece is a reply for the troublemakers who stapled manifestos saying art in Reno sucks during Artown this summer. Yes it sucks, you don't even know the half of it....so....Insulting everyone has been done before. How redundant. I double dog dare them to come up with an original and constructive idea of their own. Picture by Michael Marcum

8). High Desert, High Life; This commercial flashing sign has been altered to show a new, noncommercial message. Photo by Michael Marcum

9). These are our demands,

Neon/Graffiti collaboration with Jacob Robinson

http://www.newsreview.com/issues/reno/2002-07-04/Pulse.asp#

This sign is another assault on complacency about a potentially horrific and unarguably unjust situation. The Democratic party in Nevada is even more pathetic here than any where else. Speaking of which, this picture doesn't do Jacob's Mushroom cloud justice.

from the M. S. Hennessy collection