Gallery of Fire

Gallery of Fire is a collaborative exhibition between Flagstaff based artists Shawn Skabelund and Chelsea Arndt. The exhibition involves three site-specific, place-based installations which include Gallery of Fire, Fidelity and Wandering Angel: Exemplar, Looking Back.

These installations explore what happens when fire suppression is introduced into a pure lodgepole pine landscape like the one found in the Snowy Range of Eastern Wyoming. As humans, we now are viewers of the consequences of climate change, vis à vis warmer and drier weather, leading to an epidemic of pine beetle kill-off, leading to an abundance of fuel, leading to catastrophic fire, leading to landscape change. We have become viewers to this relatively new landscape, this new Gallery of Fire.

https://shawnskabelund.com/installations/gallery-fire-2025/

https://shawnskabelund.com/installations/fidelity-2025/

https://shawnskabelund.com/installations/wandering-angel-exemplar-looking-back/