Exhibition - Rapid City, South Dakota
Tailings
June 12 - September 19, 2026
Opening Reception and Gallery Talks: Friday, June 12, 5-7pm
The Stan Adelstein and Lynda K. Gallery, Dahl Arts Center
713 7th St, Rapid City SD 57701
Land Report Collective is headed to South Dakota this summer to install a special exhibition titled is Tailings. Mining tailings are materials rejected from a mill after most of the recoverable valuable minerals have been extracted.
Curated by Marty Two Bulls, the exhibition brings together work by Land Report Collective alongside Jean Laughton, Michael Baum, and Marty Two Bulls.
Our thanks to everyone at the Dahl Arts Center, including Jeannie Larson, Travis Dewes, and Noah Geiger, for their incredible support and generosity.
See Current Exhibits at the Dahl Art Center
The Dahl Arts Center has served as a premier western South Dakota arts center for contemporary visual arts, arts education and performing arts since it opened in October 1974. It is a public facility, gifted to Rapid City by Mr. & Mrs. A.E. Dahl, owned by the City of Rapid City and is managed by the Rapid City Arts Council.
If you’re traveling through the Black Hills or Badlands this summer, please stop in Rapid City and check it out.
My sculptures on display in this special exhibition include:
Excavation: Below Grade
Cast iron, steel, adhesive, artificial turf, and paint
Suburban Constructs: Housing Cycle
Cast iron, foam, adhesive, artificial turf, and paint
Suburban Constructs: Endless Column
Cast iron, steel, adhesive, hardware, artificial turf, and paint
Turf Roll: Curves Ahead
Steel, wood, artificial turf, and plastic
Although each Land Report artist investigates formal and conceptual issues based in the landscape as an individual, the essence of our collective lies in the intersection between the things each of us point at – as if we were pointing to locations like road signs. New meanings and contexts emerge when viewers see the conversations that open up between works in an exhibition that would not normally occur when pieces are exhibited in isolation. Furthermore, the development of the work for each exhibition is a result of the artists being in direct and indirect dialogue with each other, the spaces they inhabit and the people they interact with there. Through this active process, members of the collective make new work as if it were a conversation, even though each artist acts autonomously and there is no hierarchical structure imposed.”
The Land Report Collective deals with landscape in fundamental ways and as a foundational reference point.
Land Report Collective on site at Dahl Arts Center
Bajuyo’s work is fueled by compassion and a critique of capitalism, as she explores perceptions of value in order to foster an awareness of the role of social amnesia on consumer behavior.
Brown considers the politics of mountaintop removal in his construction of objects and installations while also creating playful formal assemblages.
Jobe typically creates schemes for public interaction through the delineation of pathways or through site-specific focal points.
Jones responds to desert environments with experimental interactions, model scale sculpture, and large scale outdoor works.
Kikut incorporates a lifelong interest in the horizon line in a series of paintings with flat Midwestern landscapes as his muse.
McGuire's installations explore the political dimensions of land ownership; the problem of foam, microplastics, and other industrial waste in our environment; and the fragile interconnectivity of the Earth’s ecosystems.
Shadwell views the landscape from a non-traditional lens, responding to ephemeral images from highway road cameras, monumental mining operations and the optical nature of the salt flats through drawing, sculpture and video installation.
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