Mark Ruwedel
Moving Rocks #8 (The Racetrack)

ArtistAmerican, born 1954
CultureAmerican
Titles
  • Moving Rocks #8 (The Racetrack)
Date2000, printed 2021
MediumInkjet print
DimensionsImage: 30 × 37 1/2 in. (76.2 × 95.3 cm)
Sheet: 41 × 47 1/2 in. (104.1 × 120.7 cm)

Credit LineGift of Nick and Stephanie Bozick
Object number2024.331
Current Location
The Nancy and Rich Kinder Building
Gallery 208
On view

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Department
Photography
Object Type
Description

Mark Ruwedel, who has long explored both the natural and human-altered landscape of the West, photographed Moving Rocks #8 on the dry lakebed named “The Racetrack” in Death Valley National Park, California. The site is famous for rocks that have left trails on the desert floor as they have moved across the landscape over time. Although space aliens have been offered as one explanation of the movement, those who study them attribute the movement to rare confluence of rain, ice, and wind.


ProvenanceThe artist and Lapis Press, 2021; [Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles]; purchased by Nick and Stephanie Bozick; given to MFAH, 2024.

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