 
Karen Halverson - Davis Gulch, Lake Powell, Utah. 1995.
April 18th to June 21st, 2008.Opening reception:
Friday, April 18th, 7-9 pm
Lccture and book signing:
Saturday, April 26th, 2:30 pm
Michael Dawson Gallery is pleased to present
DOWNSTREAM: ENCOUNTERS WITH
THE COLORADO RIVER, an exhibit of the
photographic artwork of Karen Halverson.
DOWNSTREAM is an arresting vision of
the Colorado River by renowned landscape
photographer Karen Halverson. Halverson
explores the Colorado, a river crucial to development in the West, which is at once wilderness, natural
resource, recreation area, and wasteland.
In her large-format color photographs, Halverson takes the viewer on an intimate exploration of the
entire length of the Colorado, from its rugged upstream canyons, to its dams and reservoirs, to where it
disappears, entirely consumed, into the desert.
Halverson's images capture the river's natural majesty, as well as the strange and unexpected beauty
of its altered state. Halverson explored the Colorado by car, on foot, and by raft, and her work is an
extraordinary view of the Colorado's great enduring splendor, as well as a clear-eyed look at the many
ironies involved in the complex water-delivery system of the American west.
The exhibition is accompanied by a new hard cover monograph of Halverson's Colorado River photographs,
published by the University of California Press. Halverson's landscape photographs have been
featured in numerous group and solo exhibitions. Her work is included in the permanent collections of
the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the San Francisco Museum of Art, the J. Paul Getty Museum,
the Corcoran Gallery, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, among others.
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