MIAMI, FLORIDA.- The Patricia & Phillip Frost Art Museum presents Mark Klett: Ideas About Time, a major retrospective of work by the Tempe-based photographer who has earned international acclaim, opening Friday, January 14, 2005 and on view at the museum through March 13, 2005. Mark Klett: Ideas About Time is organized by the Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona, and curated by Marilyn A. Zeitlin. Opening night’s festivities will feature a lecture by the Mark Klett as part of the esteemed Steven & Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series.

Ideas About Time is a photographic exploration of the passage of time mapping the changing landscape and the decisive moments created by the detritus of human civilization, geological forces and the point of view of the photographer himself. Klett is known primarily as a photographer who specializes in works that focus on perceptions of the American West. Ideas About Time will follow the concept of time throughout the artist’s work, from panoramas and sequential works, to photographs that will be exhibited for the first time. Arizona State University Art Museum Director, and curator of the exhibition, Marilyn Zeitlin, comments, “The idea of returning to a place to encapsulate change over time is central to Klett’s work.”

Among the works in the exhibition are photographs from the Second View and Third View projects, in which the location and orientation of 19th century photographs of the western landscape were painstakingly recreated in the 1970’s and again in the 1990’s. The series of images create a unique understanding of the relationship between people and place in the west, as the photographs form connections between past and the present, illustrating the dynamic interaction of nature and culture. The exhibition also features an interactive CD-ROM projection of the Third View project which explains the process and outcome of this ambitious undertaking.

The opening reception will be held Friday, January 14th, 2005. Mark Klett will give a lecture as part of the Steven & Dorothea Green Critics’ Lecture Series at 8pm in room GL 100, followed by the exhibition opening at the Frost Art Museum in room PC 110, located on Florida International University’s University Park Campus.