Gallery Talk: “Beneath the Surface”

Join Kristen Gaylord, Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts, for a one-hour exploration of mining, photography, and the complex relationship between them, along with other themes and topics in the exhibition Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography.

About the curator Kristen Gaylord: Kristen is the Herzfeld Curator of Photography and Media Arts, overseeing the Museum’s photography and new media collections. Since joining MAM in 2023, she has organized Currents 40: Widline Cadet (2026) and Erin Shirreff: Permanent Drafts (2025), co-curated Beneath the Surface: Mining and American Photography (2026) for the National Gallery of Art, and served as site curator for Arresting Beauty: Julia Margaret Cameron (2024) in Milwaukee. Previously, Gaylord was associate curator of photographs at the Amon Carter Museum of American Art and held curatorial roles at the Museum of Modern Art, where she contributed to over a dozen exhibitions and publications. She holds an MA and a PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

Image: Lucas Foglia (American, b. 1983), Naughton Power Plant, PacifiCorp, Kemmerer, Wyoming (detail), from the series Frontcountry, 2010, printed 2020. Inkjet print. Gift of Dr. Joseph Chazan, M2020.86. © Lucas Foglia.