Installation of Michael Brophy's Reach - The Hanford Series

Artist Talk

Roundtable discussion: "Extending the Reach: What Artists Teach Us About Nuclear Landscapes"

5:30 pm

Join Reach: The Hanford Series artist Michael Brophy, visiting scholar Zoe Weldon-Yochim (Ph.D. Candidate, UC Santa Cruz), and Dr. Emily Eliza Scott (Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture and Environmental Studies) for a roundtable conversation about how contemporary artists respond to and represent issues of nuclearity, contaminated landscapes, and environmental justice, and how their work shapes public understanding.

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Michael Brophy’s Reach: The Hanford Series

Harold and Arlene Schnitzer Gallery

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In 2017 painter Michael Brophy visited the decommissioned nuclear production complex at Hanford, Washington. He observed its B Reactor, the world’s first full-scale plutonium-producing reactor, the former townsites and remnants of the area closed off when Hanford’s facilities were established by the U.S. Government in 1943, and a landscape forever changed. In a reference to the site’s nine nuclear reactors, now offline and cocooned in concrete, Brophy made nine paintings to document and process his experience and bring this history to light.

Includes:
  • Virtual Tour