Commemorate a key moment in the career of the Las Vegas ceramicist Sierra Slentz with this unique artwork from her majestic 2019 series, Under the Desert Sky. Each piece in the series memorializes her impressions of a walk in the Southern Nevada Desert, remembering it with textures, forms, artifacts, and touches of gold leaf. ("There are some natural elements that are being illuminated by that gold to kind of make them a little more precious," she explained in an interview with the Desert Companion. "To remind you that, hey, this water is precious, this root system is precious.") In 2020, she used Desert Sky as the basis for her pandemic diary series, which was exhibited at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art in 2021 under the title Marking Time.

Sierra Slentz (Las Vegas, NV)
From Under The Desert Sky, 2019
Ceramic stoneware, porcelain, glaze, gold luster
4 x 4 x 4 inches

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