The sway between a structured, observational
approach to image making and the free - form, improvisational gestures of his interventions is very much at the crux of Divola's practice and can be traced from his earliest foundational work of the 1970's to more recent bodies of work
such as
Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert (1996 - 2001), where Divola documents the dogs that chased his car while working in the Southern California desert; As Far as I Could Get (1996/1997), where Divola sets up a camera and runs away from it during a given exposure; and Dark Star (2008), where his melding of intervention and observation continues to be in the foreground in large - format, color work made during the last decade.&ra
Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert (1996 - 2001), where Divola documents the
dogs that chased his car while working in the Southern California desert; As Far as I Could Get (1996/1997), where Divola sets up a camera and runs away from it during a given exposure; and Dark Star (2008), where his melding of intervention and observation continues to be in the foreground in large - format, color work made during the last decade.&ra
dogs that chased his car while working in the Southern California desert; As Far as I Could Get (1996/1997), where Divola sets up a camera and runs away from it during a given exposure; and Dark Star (2008), where his melding of intervention and observation continues to be in the foreground in
large - format, color work made during the last decade.»