The Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to share news of an important upcoming museum exhibition by gallery artist Mimi Plumb. Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb will be presented at the High Museum of Art in Atlanta from February 6 through May 10, 2026. This marks Plumb’s first major solo museum exhibition, which will then travel to the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College Chicago.

The exhibition brings together more than one hundred photographs spanning five decades of Plumb’s work, largely made in California and across the American West. Her images explore how people inhabit and are shaped by changing landscapes, both social and environmental, offering a quiet but perceptive view of the American West over time.

Key series on view include The White Sky, which observes suburban youth in 1970s California; Landfall and The Golden City, reflecting on the intersection of human presence and the built environment; and more recent photographs from The Reservoir taken around Folsom Lake, made during periods of drought, that consider vulnerability, resilience, and our relationship to the natural world.

Plumb’s photographs are held in numerous public collections, including the High Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Blazing Light provides a rare opportunity to see the full arc of her work.