The Nevada Museum of Art presents ReBloom: Reno, a new site-specific earthwork by Bay Area artist Ken Goldberg, created in collaboration with Kabir Shah, Sanjay Krishnan, Fernanda Viégas, and Martin Wattenberg. On view October 10, 2026 through February 7, 2027 in the Thomas Lee Bottom Gallery, the installation draws on live seismic data from a local seismometer station, transforming the earth's constant motion into circular blooms of color that suggest fields of flowers.

“As an artist and roboticist, I use new technologies to express the contrasts between what is natural and what is artificial, the liminal spaces between reality and representation. I’m excited to present this installation created uniquely for the Nevada Museum of Art,” said Ken Goldberg.

For centuries, artists have worked to represent land that is too vast to control, combining firsthand impressions of the natural world with concerns about human encroachment and a respect for the sublime, an experience of awe and vulnerability to forces larger than ourselves. ReBloom: reno extends that tradition into the present, offering a new way to visualize our shared environment: not as a fixed image, but as a living system, rendered moment to moment from data the earth itself is generating right now.

“ReBloom: Reno offers an innovative reinterpretation of Land Art, extending its engagement with the natural world through real-time geological processes. Goldberg’s immersive live-feed projection brings the Earth’s continual seismic activity into conversation with works from the Museum’s permanent collection, highlighting the dynamic interplay between art, landscape, and environmental change,” added Apsara DiQuinzio, Andrea and John C. Deane Family Chief Curator of Nevada Museum of Art.

ReBloom: Reno is part of a long tradition of landscape painters and earth artists who have sought to represent the expansive scale of the natural world. Here, that tradition is folded directly into the work's material: the never-repeating bands of color in each bloom are drawn from five landscape paintings in the Nevada Museum of Art's permanent collection, by Chester Arnold, Sandow Birk, Maynard Dixon, Jean LaMarr, and Phyllis Shafer. The five paintings are displayed just outside the installation. Inside, ReBloom: Reno samples from each painting for one minute at a time, so that all five are represented every five minutes, an evolving palette drawn directly from the museum's own walls.

Among the source paintings, Maynard Dixon's 1927 desert scene contributes a dusk palette of dusty gold sagebrush, violet mountain silhouettes, and a pale, glowing sky. Jean LaMarr's painting, depicting four figures riding in the bed of a green pickup truck against magenta mountains and a warm orange sky, lends ReBloom: Reno some of its boldest, highest-key color. Chester Arnold's densely worked wetland landscape, featuring a gnarled, broken tree set against golden marsh grass and a storm-darkened sky, contributes a deep register of umber, olive, and slate. ReBloom: Reno is the latest chapter in Goldberg's ongoing series of site-specific seismic installations, and one of two major museum presentations for the artist this year: his surveillance installation Demonstrate is concurrently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art.