Haines is pleased to announce the acquisition of Meghann Riepenhoff’s Ice #414 (29-34°F, Mixed Precipitation, Puget Sound, 1.30.23 WA), 2023 by the Denver Art Museum, CO.
Riepenhoff creates her camera-less cyanotypes in collaboration with the elements, placing paper coated with homemade emulsion directly within the landscape. Elements from water and the shore physically inscribe into the photographic materials, resulting in lush, complex surfaces that evoke the natural world at its most powerful and sublime.
Works from Riepenhoff’s Ice series are made in freezing landscapes, in waters ranging from Walden Pond to remote creeks in western Washington. Each print is full of subtle details, each expressing a slightly different temperature, type of water, and crystalline structure of ice forming on photographic paper — a portrait of a time and place that is both literal and abstract, and wholly unique.
Ice #414 (29-34°F, Mixed Precipitation, Puget Sound, 1.30.23 WA) will be on view at the Denver Art Museum in the upcoming exhibition What We’ve Been Up To: Landscape. On view from June 8 to December 7, 2025, What We’ve Been Up To features a selection of photographs from the museum’s collection that have never been shown to the public, and demonstrate the variety of ways landscape photographs help us see and appreciate other times and places and consider where the world has been and what it is becoming.
Learn more at denverartmuseum.org
