John Divola

Isolated Houses

February 2, 2006 - February 25, 2006

John Divola’s series, “Isolated Houses” was published in book form by Nazraeli Press in 2000 and the series focuses on urban sprawl’s outer frontier. Los Angeles is a centrifugal city, fundamentally American in its tendency toward the periphery. But Divola stretched further, and here, 150 miles outside the city, the built environment comprises a handful of rudimentary structures, isolated cubes at the edge of the infinite plane of the desert. The dwellings that dot the landscape seem temporary and toy-like, but are the center of these photographs, the reason for their being. This work pays homage to those places where nature and culture intersect, and suggests that we all occupy a border zone between the natural and the artificial. Divola’s work is included in the permanent collections of such museums as The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.