Man on the Land

Tyler Stoll

February 1 - 23, 2025

In Man on the Land, Tyler Stoll reimagines iconic land artist Robert Smithson’s Mirror Displacements, swapping the mirrors with homemade cardboard cutouts of John Travolta as Danny Zuko from the 1978 musical film Grease. Installed and photographed during a residency at the Ucross Foundation, a working cattle ranch on the High Plains of Wyoming, these works poke fun at romantic narratives of The American West, “Finding Yourself in Nature,” and the (typically masculine) fascination with placing large rectangular things in the landscape.