About this event

Wild Flower House will be on view in McNamara Hallway Gallery from February 24 - March 20, 2026. Join us for a reception in the gallery on March 12 from 5-7pm.

Wild Flower House pairs the paper-based work of artists Zach Clark & D. Stevens.

Zach Clark’s collection of risograph prints are composed of photographic images made with technically capable, but equally unreliable vintage rangefinder cameras. Interested in the similarly unreliable process of memory, instead of typically precise photographic print processes, Clark’s multiple-exposure 35mm negatives are scanned and translated through risograph color-separations which became much more like painterly images than proper photographs, questioning how and what images and memories mean.

D. Stevens’ wigged-out mixed-media collage and drawings reflect, in exuberant ways, on the astounding violence from Necro-State systems of nature-destroying technology and weaponization of food and water. With a zero-waste ethos applied to studio practice, Stevens uses collage to review materials that would otherwise become trash. This work is assembled from reworked scraps cut from old work, layered with paint, ink, and graphite, creating joy as an act of defiance.

Together, this work represents a kind of skepticism of images, combined with a resourcefulness and direct approach to art-making found in both of their practices. Clark’s snapshot photography and Stevens’ casual drawing hand demonstrate an immediacy of voice, while Steven’s razor-sharp collage compositions, and Clark’s skilled risograph print knowledge share a sustained and sophisticated craft.

Zach Clark

Zach Clark is an Oakland, CA based artist, educator, and publisher. He received his BFA from University of Illinois Chicago, and MFA from University of California Davis. His work is rooted in locational memory and is based in the intersection of printmaking, photography, and publication. He publishes as National Monument Press, a publishing project focused on supporting uniquely American stories through small edition printed matter and curatorial projects, completed largely through collaboration with other artists. He is one half of Chute Studio, an Oakland based Risograph publishing studio. He is a lecturer at California State University East Bay, and has shown, worked, taught, and is in collections across North America, Europe, and Japan.

Clark is visiting UNR for a public artist talk on Thursday March 19, 2026.

D. Stevens

D. Stevens is an artist from San Francisco and currently based in Reno. Stevens works primarily in mixed-media collage, continuing a relevant background in diverse materials from special FX, prop production, and hair. Past work has appeared in film & on stage, for Peaches Christ productions of Beetlejuice, Death Becomes Her, She Devil, as well as in exhibitions in Los Angeles, Bay Area, and Northern Nevada.

Additional information

• Attendance type: In person
• Cost: Free
• Event type: Arts & Culture, Social Events