Norco Cumulus Cloud, Shell Oil Refinery, Norco, Louisiana
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Object Details
Artist/Maker
Richard Misrach, American, born 1949
Date
1998, printed 2012
Medium
Pigmented inkjet print
Dimensions
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Credit
Commissioned with funds from the H. B. and Doris Massey Charitable Trust, Lucinda W. Bunnen, and High Museum of Art Enhancement Fund
Accession #
2012.6
Image Copyright
© 1998 Richard Misrach / Courtesy of Fraenkel Gallery, Pace-MacGill Gallery and Marc Selwyn Fine Arts.
Description
“Norco, twenty-five miles upriver from New Orleans, is the site of a massive Shell Oil refinery. Throughout the day, natural-looking clouds, nicknamed ‘Norco cumulus,’ hover over the site, created by the comingling of moisture and volatile hydrocarbons that originate in the process of refining gasoline, jet fuel, cooking oil, and other products. In 2009 the EPA ranked Louisiana as one of the top ten polluters of air and water in the United States.” —Richard Misrach