Spectrum Art Gallery Distinguished Guest Artist
Invisible World by Nevada Wier
April 3 – 27, 2025
Spectrum Art Gallery’s distinguished guest artist, internationally renowned photographer, Nevada Wier, comes to Fresno with her exhibition ‘Invisible World’.
Nevada Wier, based in Santa Fe, New Mexico is a photographer specializing in documenting the remote corners and cultures of the world. She is recognized for her creative and intimate approach to people, as well as her intriguing Infrared images. She has been published in numerous national and international publications, including: National Geographic Magazine, GEO, NYTimes Magazine, and Shadow & Light. Her fine-art prints are featured in numerous public and private collections.
Nevada is a well-known keynote speaker, workshop, and seminar instructor. Photo District News named her one of America’s best photography workshop teachers. Nevada’s books include The Land of Nine Dragons – Vietnam Today (Abbeville Press), winner of the Lowell Thomas Best Travel Book of 1992 award, and Adventure Travel Photography (Amphoto). She is currently working on two new books, A Nomadic Vision (publication TBA) and Invisible World: Infrared Photography (publication TBA).
Nevada has been featured in television productions such as: National Geographic Explorer, National Geographic Through the Lens, and Canon Photo Safaris. She has been a speaker on the nation-wide tour LIVE …from National Geographic.
She is a Fellow of The Explorer’s Club and a member of the Women’s Geographic Society.
Join us in welcoming distinguished guest artist, Nevada Wier, to our gallery. We have multiple events scheduled for this exhibition including our monthly ArtHop reception. Then the annual Hanna S. Barsam award ceremony where she will give a keynote lecture at Fresno City College. Followed by an artist reception and presentation for our monthly Friday Photography Live at Spectrum Art Gallery. And lastly, a seminar by Nevada Wier: Introduction to Color Infrared Photography at Spectrum Art Gallery.
Invisible World
Nevada Wier
Our visual familiarity is limited to the colors of visible light. Beyond what our eyes can see is the iridescent world of the infrared (IR) spectrum. In 1997 I began exploring the challenge of making the invisible visible: photographing unusual places using the unusual, haunting light of near infrared. The resulting photographs are truly travel images in a different light. I began my exploration with Kodak Ektachrome IR film, then in 2007 I had a digital camera converted to only render near-infrared light. The results are eerily gorgeous, like hand-tinted photographs but with an almost surreal sharpening of details, as if the subjects were captured in a flash of lightning. It is difficult to predict what colors will emerge in the images; skin tones are more luminous and unblemished, foliage is iridescent, eye color changes, and often details emerge that would not have been visible to the naked eye. The evocative tones lift these images out of the ordinary and beyond the predictability of travel photography, making my subjects feel at once mysterious and familiar. I explore tribal culture and less frequented lands but served up in unseen light.
What is invisible becomes art – revealed. – Nevada Wier
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
- ArtHop Reception, Spectrum Art Gallery, Thursday, April 3, 2025, 5-8pm, Free Admission
- Nevada Wier Keynote Lecture, Hanna S. Barsam Award Ceremony, Thursday, April 24, 2025, 6pm Fresno City College, OAB 251, Free Admission
- Friday Photography Live: Artist Reception & Presentation, Friday, April 25, 2025, 6pm, Spectrum Art Gallery, Free Admission
- Artist Seminar Nevada Wier: Introduction to Color Infrared Photography, Saturday, April 26, 2025 9am-1pm, Spectrum Art Gallery, Admission $95 – Space is Limited – Register: square.link/u/7LssavIO