Collect
Cara Despain
Nevada Test Site, 2020
Cast gypsum cement
12 x 12 inches
Unique edition
$500
All proceeds go directly to the artist. Oolite Arts is not involved in the transaction process.
Cara Despain is an artist working in film and video, sculpture, photography and installation addressing issues of land use, the desert, climate change, visualizing the Anthropocene, land ownership and the problematics of frontierism. Writing and research play a major role in all of her creative work, and she often works site-specifically— researching, casting objects, or writing in the field. She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah (1983) and currently lives in Miami, Florida and works between the two. She holds a BFA from the University of Utah (2006). In 2012, she was selected for the Salt Lake City Mayor’s Award in the visual arts, and in 2016 she was selected for the South Florida Consortium Fellowship. In 2018, she received an Ellie award from Oolite Arts for her forthcoming film project Earthbound Objects. Her work is included in Rubell Family Collection and the Scholl Collection, as well as the State of Utah and Salt Lake County art collections.
