William L. Fox,  director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno, Nevada, has variously been called an art critic, science writer and cultural geographer whose work is a sustained injury into how human cognition transforms land into landscape.

Image: Gianfranco Gorgoni, Ugo Rondinone’s "Seven Magic Mountains, near Jean Dry Lake, Nevada," 2016, 2016, Chromogenic print. Photograph from the Collection of the Nevada Museum of Art, The Altered Landscape, Carol Franc Buck Collection, with additional funds provided by the late Nancy J. Peppin; Photograph ˝ Estate of Gianfranco Gorgoni; Artwork co-produced and presented by the Nevada Museum of Art and Art Production Fund; Artwork ˝ Ugo Rondinone.