Into the Dirt

The artists of “Into the Dirt” — Katie Broyles, Jenelle Esparza, Haley Hill, Gabriela Muñoz, and Aziza Murray — consider landscape not merely as a subject, but a collaborator. Full of history, life, future. What does it look like to inhabit it? to work with it, for it to work through you? What belongs here? Does the land we traverse permeate our identities?

The artists offer some answers to these questions, pulling on threads of familial history, tracing paths for some remaining tracks, gathering dust. Drawing on a connection to place, we see portraits of its people, created with the earth of their region; we picture ourselves within it; we see the most basic of its elements gilded, immortalized; we dance in its peculiarity. We consider what will come after.