Patti Hallock

Patti Hallock's photographs present a vision of the American West that is both haunting and thought-provoking. Hallock's scenes move from expansive landscapes that convey a sense of possibility and mystery to tightly composed images focusing on details of a particular site. Collectively, her works suggest the aftermath of an adventure; they document the ruins of the West, proposing that the landscape is a site of both progress and deterioration. In her treatment of this terrain, she twins the resourcefulness… Show more of the setting with the depletion of those resources. A site of eminent potential ultimately is shown to be a site of quiet collapse.

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