Exhibition Details
Vanishing Points is a long-term photography project that focuses on significant sites of Indigenous American presence, including sacred landforms, earthworks, documented archaeological sites and contested battlegrounds.
View a brief guided tour of the exhibition
February 22 – March 12, 2021
Charles W. and Norma C. Carroll Gallery, inside the Visual Arts Center
Watch a recording of the virtual reception for Vanishing Points
Short on time? Just watch Michael Sherwin’s artist talk.
Artist Information
Michael Sherwin is a multimedia artist based in the Appalachian Mountains of northern West Virginia. He has won numerous grants and awards. Currently, he is an Associate Professor of Art in the School of Art and Design at West Virginia University.
Companion Catalog
Vanishing Points is a long-term photography project that focuses on significant sites of Indigenous American presence, including sacred landforms, earthworks, documented archaeological sites and contested battlegrounds. The book combines beautiful large format landscape images with smaller still lifes of artifacts collected at the sites. The combination of photographs presented in this book operate as literal and metaphorical vanishing points. They reflect on the monuments modern culture will leave behind and what the archeological evidence of our civilization will reveal about our time on earth. Michael is in the final stages of publishing his first monograph on the Vanishing Points project with Germany-based publisher, Kehrer Verlag, one of the leading publishers of fine art photography in the world. The book will be available in the United States May 4, 2021. Available for pre-order.