Plumb’s photographs give shape to the things that keep us up at night, to the ambiguous and often overwhelming experience of living through times of trepidation and turmoil. – Gregory Harris, Curator of Photography, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

The Robert Koch Gallery is pleased to share news of the first museum survey dedicated to gallery artist Mimi Plumb’s work, Blazing Light: Photographs by Mimi Plumb. With more than one hundred photographs created between 1972 and 2025, it is currently on view at the High Museum of Art. The exhibition 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.

Spanning five decades of Plumb’s work, the photographs in the exhibition are 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.