My one-person exhibit The Invented Land was exhibited at The Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, California (Greater Los Angeles area) in 2024. The exhibit is accompanied by a book produced by the museum, with an introduction by Andi Campognone, museum director, and essays by Leslie Jones, Curator of Prints and Drawings at Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2005-2023 and Mark Arax, author of The Dreamt Land, which explores the histories and challenges of California’s water distribution system.
  
The drawings, tapestries, maps and walk in installation that comprise this exhibit are based on the subject of industrial agriculture/factory farming, the modernization of how we grow food and also the significant transformations this type of farming has made to the environment and our society. This body of work focuses on California’s San Joaquin Valley, the fertile land in the middle of the state which grows a substantial portion the world’s food. California’s verdant farmland plays a significant role in the use of natural resources, our global food supply, and population demographics; however, the way it was used for many generations is rapidly transitioning with our physical needs and changes in climate. Through my investigations  of land, water, and the architecture of modern-day factory farming, I am interpreting ecological decline, man’s imprint on the land, natural cycles, and the changing climate, as well as how identity is tied to place and how place is experienced both currently and historically.
  
Programming with the event, including a talk by Rosanna Xia, a Pulitzer Prize finalist and an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times who directed the award-winning documentary film “Out of Plain Sight,” and is the author of  “California Against the Sea”, Visions for our Vanishing Coastline, was a preview event for Getty Pacific Standard Time: Art & Science Collide.
  
The Invented Land is traveling to The Bakersfield Museum of Art, opening January 2026. The book will be re-issued with additional work and essays by Shana Nys Dambrot, art critic, curator and author, Ian James, staff writer for the Los Angeles Times, whose work focuses on water, Victor Gonzales, Curator of Collections and Exhibitions, The Bakersfield Museum of Art, and Andi Campognone, curator, author and filmmaker and Manager/Curator of The Lancaster Museum of Art and History, 2011-2024.