Isolated House (1995) by John Di Vola (American, born 1949)  

Chromogenic print on Fujicolor Archive paper. Framed

Edition of 80 (2005)Signed, dated and editioned in ink on the reverse)

39 inches x 17 ½ inches + framing.

Published in Isolated Houses (2000, Nazraeli.)

Isolated Houses, Divola's vivid color photographs of one-room dwellings were made from 1994-1998 in the east end of the Morongo Valley Basin, Wonder Valley and the area surrounding Twenty-Nine Palms. Divola is drawn to the vernacular character of the architecture (painted with a Home Depot palette) as well as the amazing visual character of these structures on this vast desert plain lit by an extraordinary light. At the center of each image is a square house-sometimes shown close up, other times, at a distance. John’s eye and the way he captures the expansion of space and time is really unique compared to the many images we see of the Calif desert.

Divola's work has been featured in the 1981 and 2017 Whitney Biennials. In 2013, his retrospective exhibition appeared at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the Benton Museum of Art. His photographs are in the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, each in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and in London at Tate Modern and the Victoria & Albert Museum.