Riviera Hotel and Casino, 2901 S Las Vegas Blvd

Riviera Hotel and Casino, 2901 S Las Vegas Blvd, 2013
Chromogenic print between acrylic
Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collection
Gift of Amy Yoes
2017.40

Baltimore-based artist Catherine Borg uses photography, video, and other media to reposition her audience within the narratives of recognizable cultural phenomena. Her work has been presented internationally, with exhibitions and screenings at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA; the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, MA; and the Contemporary Art Center, Las Vegas, NV.

These works are part of Borg’s project Scouted: An Inadvertent Archive from the Search for a Cinematic Vegas which appropriates and re-contextualizes materials from UNLV Special Collections. The images, originally created by location scouts, have been reframed to expand the archival record of Las Vegas to include life "off the strip" and to consider the labor and by-products of the culture industry.

Item Description:
A photograph of several snapshots arranged in groups on top of a manila folder. In the snapshot on the bottom left of the picture we can see the words “Marie Antoinette 2917” printed on an ornate metal doorplate above the circular ring of a peephole. In the snapshots on the bottom right there is a long hallway where a lime green carpet contrasts with pink and blue wallpaper. The rest of the snapshots at the top of the folder are cropped, but they appear to be more pictures of the same hallway.