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James Sanborn - List of Gallery Installations

Page last updated: September 29, 2003

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Title Location Medium Date
  Filled Canyon Diane Brown Gallery sandstone, 8' x 7' x10' 1979
  Split Butte - Filled Diane Brown Sculpture Space pyramid of stacked sandstone bands ??
Valley-Butte-Valley Butte Valley, Butte Valley, Butte Diane Brown Sculpture Space sandstone, 8'x7'x4" 1979
  Tornado Canyon Diane Brown Sculpture Space sandstone, metal bands, brass sheeting ??
  Shifted Canyon Filled "Sedimentary Constructions," Diane Brown Sculpture Space sandstone  
Landslide Canyon (also known as "Filled Canyon", 8x7x10) "Sedimentary Constructions," Diane Brown Sculpture Space sandstone, 8'x7'x8" 1979
  Magnetic North "Sedimentary Constructions," Diane Brown Sculpture Space gray stone, green quartz  
Lightning Mountain   sandstone 4'x3'x6' 1979
  Polar Horizon   gypsum, crystals, 16x8x6' 1980
Installation at the Hirshhorn - image courtesy of Francoise Yohalem Collection: Lightning and Other Earthly Forces Diane Brown Gallery lodestones, suspended needles, sandstone 1981-1982
  Three Ranges   sandsone, 30x18x10' 1982
  Last Night's Strike Diane Brown Gallery lodestone, needle, light, shadow  
Invisible Forces - Photo by David Crosley Invisible Forces Installation Lawndale Annex, Houston, TX sandstone, steel 1982
Untitled from Diane Brown Gallery untitled Diane Brown Gallery sandstone, lodestone, compass 4'x1'x4" 1982
Lightning Horizon Lightning Horizon Diane Brown Gallery sandstone, lodestone, compasses - 7'x18"x4" 1982
 
Invisible Forces and the Art of the Quest Exhibition: The Next Juried Show, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts NFS compasses, lodestone, fool's gold, basalt, sandstone, theatrical lights, and the mummified corpse of Ti Ameny Net in a polychromed wooden case (Egyptian, 22nd Dynasty, on loan from the University of Richmond, Ancient World Galley Collection) 1983
  Ferrous Aquafer   shadow, sandstone, 6x1x4' 1985
    Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL   ??
Conjured Visions, Infamous Traingles and the Oriental Mariner - image courtesy of Francoise Yohalem Conjured Visions, Infamous Triangles and the Oriental Mariner
(additional image here)
Southeast Center for Creative Arts
Winston-Salem, North Carolina
stone, light, needles, gold-leaf 1984-1985
Striking Stones Under the Thunder
Striking Stones Under the Thunder

Exhibition: Natural Settings
Exhibition: Covert Obsolescence

Sandstone, lodestone, shadow, and slate. 20' x 11' x 3' (also listed as 25' x 12' x 4') 1985
Frozen Cyclones Frozen Cyclones   sandstone, shadow, fossil
17' x 11' x 4'
1985
  Sailing Too Close to Magnet Mountain   sandstone, lodestone, 30x20x7' 1986
 
All Things Turned to Stone ?? ?? 1987
Code Room - half-height encoded cylinder from "Covert Obsolescence" exhibition
Code Room
(half-height illuminated Kryptos Vigenere cylinder)
Exhibition: Covert Obsolescence ?? 1990
Encoded Cylinder from "Covert Obsolescence" exhibition
Encoded Cylinder Exhibition: Covert Obsolescence ?? 1990
Vortex Projection - Phillips Collection Vortex Projection 1   water, fossils, underwater light, 12x12x12' 1990
  Covert Obsolescence   pulped classified dcouments from the CIA, enciphered English text, 18" x 84" 1990
  Covert Obsolescence   pulped classified dcouments from the CIA, enciphered English text, 5' x 8' 1991
  Vortex Projection 2   changed position, water, fossils, underwater light, 12x12x12' 1990
 
Covert Operations Fragment Federal Reserve Board Art Gallery Pulped paper from CIA - 17" x 75" 1991
 
Covert Operations Exhibition: Secrets Passed Pulped documents encoded text (English) - 5'x8' 1991
Covert Operations (Cyrillic), made of pulped paper from CIA
Covert Operations Exhibition: Secrets Passed Pulped documents encoded text (Cyrillic) - 5'x8' 1991
 
Covert Operations Exhibition: Secrets Passed Pulped documents encoded text (2) (English) - 5'x8' 1991
 
Covert Operations Exhibition: Secrets Passed Pulped documents encoded text (Arabic) - 3'x3' 1991
 
Fragment Exhibition: Secrets Passed Pulped documents encoded text (Arabic) 12" x 14" 1991
 
Fragment Exhibition: Secrets Passed Pulped documents encoded text (2) (Arabic) - 12" x 14" 1991
  Secret Past   copper, petrified wood, 80"x45"x13", half Cyrillic/KGB, half Kryptos text  
Listening Post - Covert Obsolescence exhibition
Listening Post Exhibition: Covert Obsolescence copper screen, paper pulp, projector, film loop, theater lights 1992
Archeotranscription Exhibition: Secrets Passed Plexiglass, double-etched copper microfilm KGB documents - 23" x 24" 1992
 
Code Room Exhibition: Covert Obsolescence
Exhibition: Secrets Passed
bronze cylinder (cyrillic projector encoded text), petrified tree 1992
  Inganno Deceit Filter
(Italian: deceit)
Exhibition: Filter Media Copper, 12x15x1.5" 1994
  Tromperie Deceit Filter
(French: deceit)
Exhibition: Filter Media Copper, 12x15x1.5" 1994
  Kryptos Decoding Filter
(Greek: hidden)
Exhibition: Filter Media Aluminum, brass, copper, shadow, 51 (h) x 17 (di) inches 1994
  Obmah Deceit Filter
(Russian: deceit)
Exhibition: Filter Media Copper, 12x15x1.5" 1994
  Falta Deceit Filter
(Spanish: deceit)
Exhibition: Filter Media Copper, 12x15x1.5" 1994
  Fallacia Deceit Filter
(Latin: deceit)
Exhibition: Filter Media Copper, 12x15x1.5" 1994
  Lux - Light, Mind Filter
(Latin: light)
Exhibition: Filter Media Copper lighting instrument, telescope and tripod. Variable dimensions 1994
   Ombre - Shadow Filter
(French: shadow)
Exhibition: Filter Media Copper, reflection, and stainless steel. 44x14x13.5" 1994
  CBET - Decoding Filter
(Russian: light)
Exhibition: Filter Media Aluminum, brass, copper, and shadow. 51 (h) x 17 (di) inches 1994
  Minutia - Minutia Filter
(English: small details)
Exhibition: Filter Media Brass, copper, lens, and shadow. 15" x 12" 1994
  TEHb - Shadow Filter
(Russian: shadow)
Exhibition: Filter Media Aluminum, brass, copper, and shadow. 54" x 24" 1994
  CBET - Light Filter
(Russian: light)
Exhibition: Filter Media Aluminum, brass, copper, and shadow. 54" x 24" 1994
  Inclinare, Aequus - Bias Filter
(Latin: bian, unbiased)
Exhibition: Filter Media Aluminum, brass, copper, and shadow. 60" x 13.25" x 13.25" 1994
Black & white photograph of "Animisme" piece Animisme Exhibition: Metaphysical Metaphors shimenawa (rice straw rope), mica, 35mm projection, monofilament, steel 1994
Implied Geometries: Notom, Utah
Implied Geometries: Notom, Utah Numark Gallery Photography of projected light 120' square 1995
Laramie Wyoming III, image courtesy Francoise Yohalem Topographic Projection - Laramie, Wyoming III   projected light 50'H x 300'w x 60'd (grid) 1995
Laramie, Wyoming IV - image courtesy Francoise Yohalem Implied Geometry, Projected Light: Laramie, WY IV 105 degrees 15'W
 41 degrees 15" N
projected light 40' cube 1995
Topographic Projection: Shiprock, New Mexico
Topographic Projection: Shiprock, New Mexico (106 degrees 48' W, 41 degrees 15'N) "Altered Landscape" collection, Nevada projected light 1700'h x 2000'w x 700'd 1995
Cainville, Utah Cainville, Utah 111 3' W
38 17' 57" N
projected light 100' triangle 1995
Blue Mesa Utah I Blue Mesa Utah I - Topographic Projection Blue Mesa, Utah Projected light, 500'H x 1400'W x 300'D 1995
 
Implied Geometry Horse Valley Utah I ?? inverted triangle: ?? ??
Horse Valley, Utah - image courtesy of Francoise Yohalem Horse Valley, Utah 110 degrees, 59'.22" W
38 degrees 21' 5"H
projected light 175' triangle 1995
Horse Valley II Horse Valley II - Topographic Projection ?? Projected light, 200'H x 900'W x 200'D 1995
Canyonlands, Utah IV109 35' 12" W
88 29' 10"N
projected light 400'h x 800'w x 300'd (grid)1995
Text Projection - Blue Mesa Utah projected light (LUX, N. Latin, Light) 300'H x1200'W x300'D)1995
Laramie Wyoming V - image courtesy Francoise YohalemLaramie, Wyoming V105 15' W
41 15" N
projected light - 150'h x300'w x 60'd1995
Goblin Valley, Utah - image courtesy Francoise YohalemGoblin Valley, Utah110 46' 28" W
35 31' 56" N
projected light 200'h x 500'w x 80'd (grid)1996
untitled projected light of concentric circles on a river valley 
untitled projected light of concentric circles on hill 
untitled projected light of concentric squares 
image courtesy Francoise YohalemTopographic Projection - Beara Peninsula I, Ireland projected light 80'H x 150'w x 80'd (grid) 
Horse Valley III - image courtesy of Francoise YohalemHorse Valley, Utah III110 59'3.24"W
35 21'5"H
projected light 500' h x 1600'w x 500'd (grid)1996
Horse Valley Utah IV 110 59' 22" W 58 21'5"N projected light 150' h x 400'w x 400'd, and Ilfachrome print, 48" x 60" 1995, 1996
Volcan Joshua Tree - image courtesy of Francoise YohalemVolcan - Joshua Tree, California III116 10' 45" w 
34 1' 20" N
photograph1996
Bentonite Hills, Utah I111 11' 10" W
38 25' 15" N
projected light 500'h x 1700'w x 500'd (Lux)1996
Rough Rock, Arizona108 45'3.3"W
35 25' 45"N
projected light 500'h x 1700'w x 500'd (concentric circles)1996
Kayenta Arizona 2, 1996, documentary photograph, 30 by 36 inches, of projected light, 1,000 by 1,500 by 50 feet; at Numark.Kayenta Arizona 2NumarkDocumentary photograph 30" x 36" of projected light, 1000'H x 1500'W x 500'D (grid)1995, 1996
Laramie, Wyoming II 105 15'W
41 15"N
projected light 400'h x 400'w x 600'd (grid) 1996
 
Laramie, WY IV Exhibition: Landscapes, Records of Actions Ilfachrome print, 24" x 30" 1996
Hurah Pass - image courtesy Francoise Yohalem Implied Geometry Hurah Pass Utah 108 35' 12" W
35 28' 10" N
projected light 400' cube 1996
Topographic Projectionn - County Claire, Ireland
Kilkee, County Claire 1, Ireland Exhibition: Landscapes, Records of Actions Ilfachrome print, 24" x 30" 1997
 
Green River, Utah Exhibition: Landscapes, Records of Actions Ilfachrome print, 24" x 30" 1998
Light Volume Study, Bandon Oregon - (Rocks may be "Cat and Kittens" from Indian story)
Light Volume Study 1: Bandon, Oregon Numark Gallery Photograph of projected light on fog, diameter 2 miles 1998
Zola Spy Restaurant
?? Zola Spy Restaurant, Washington, D.C.
(other info here)
?? ??
image courtesy of James Sanborn, Numark Gallery, and Corcoran Museum Laboratory Environment for the Assembly of the Trinity Device (c. 1945) Exhibition: Atomic Time aluminum, brass, gold-,silver- and nickel-plated brass, led, stainless steel, boron-impregnated plastic, detector probes, Geiger-Muller counters, simulated hydraulic lifts, graphite, wire and sound
12 x 35 x 25', dimensions variable.
1998-2003
image courtesy of James Sanborn, Numark Gallery, and Corcoran Museum Los Alamos G-M Counters and Electronics Exhibition: Atomic Time Electronic instruments
84 x 22 x 18", chassis dimensions
1998-2003
image courtesy of James Sanborn, Numark Gallery, and Corcoran Museum Assembly for Determining Critical Mass
(additional image here)
Exhibition: Atomic Time Graphite blocks, tungsten carbide, stainless steel, chromium, silver-plated brass, detector probes, G-M counter, simulated hydraulic lift, wire, and sound
48 x 48 x 48", dimensions variable
1998-2003
image courtesy of James Sanborn, Numark Gallery, and Corcoran Museum Device for Measuring the Neutron Flux of a Uranium Core Exhibition: Atomic Time Paraffin blocks, chromium, stainless steel, brass, detector probes, oscilloscope, simulated hydraulic lift, wire, sound, and deuterium gas cylinder
48 x 70 x 48", dimensions variable
1998-2003
image courtesy of James Sanborn, Numark Gallery, and Corcoran Museum Assembly for a Los Alamos Prototype II Exhibition: Atomic Time Los Alamos prototype, boron-impregnated polyethylene, lead, aluminum, graphite, G-M counters, detector probes, and wire
48 x 60 x 48", dimensions variable
1998-2003
image courtesy of James Sanborn, Numark Gallery, and Corcoran Museum Joachimsthal, Bavaria Exhibition: Atomic Time
Uranium autoradiograph, Ilfachrome print
30 x 36"
2001
image courtesy of James Sanborn, Numark Gallery, and Corcoran Museum Carrizozo, N.M., July 16, 1945 Exhibition: Atomic Time Radium clock dial, Ilfachrome print
30 x 36"
2001



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