MinerAlert
MinerAlert
Rubin and L Galleries
January 25 - March 24, 2007
Artist collective SIMPARCH invited us to reassess our relationship with water, the substance at the root of all life and a substance that in today's world is manipulated both politically and technologically. SIMPARCH used the rocky hillside outside the gallery to site several passive solar distillation units that purified the water taken from the Rio Grande River. After the water was rendered pure, it entered the gallery via a small pipe
SIMPARCH is an artist collective formed in Las Cruces in 1996 by artists Matt Lynch and Steven Badgett. The name, a combination of the words Simple and Architecture, reflects their interest in installations that present alternatives to conventional building processes and that use architecture to explore social and environmental concerns
