CANTON – There will be a gallery reception at St. Lawrence University’s Richard F. Brush Art Gallery with artist Mark Klett '74 on Friday, May 31 at 3 p.m. for Klett’s exhibit "Change is a More Accurate Representation of Time.”

The reception is free, open to the public.

The exhibition, from Thursday, May 30-Saturday, Sept. 21, is presented in conjunction with the 50th anniversary of Mark Klett's graduation from St. Lawrence University in 1974. 

The show features 12 photographs from "El Camino del Diablo," a project based on a journey by a young mining engineer, Raphael Pummely, through Arizona and Mexico in 1861 on "the road of the devil." 

Over 150 years later, Mark Klett traversed the same route, making photographs in response to Pumpelly's words. 

Unable to trace the engineer's exact steps, Klett created images that are not literal references to specific places or events. 

Rather, he sought to produce a more poetic narrative to their shared experience of the Arizona desert, along the common route that connects the two through time.

Klett is a photographer interested in the intersection of places, history and time. 

His background includes working as a geologist before turning to photography. Klett has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Japan/US Friendship Commission. 

His work has been exhibited and published in the United States and internationally, and is held in over 80 museum collections worldwide. 

He is the author/co-author of 19 books including Seeing Time, Forty Years of Photographs (University of Texas Press 2020). Klett is Regents' Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University.

St. Lawrence's Brush Art Gallery is located in the Griffiths Arts Center. For more information, contact the Gallery at 315-229-5174 or visit stlawu.edu/offices/art-gallery.