Dreams and Nightmares: Journey of a Broken Weave by Dennis Oppenheim
Dennis Oppenheim (1938-2011), an internationally known conceptual artist, performance artist, earth artist, sculptor and photographer, was an artist-in-residence in the UNM Department of Art and Art History in the 1980s when he created this piece. "Dreams and Nightmares . . ." is an example of Non-Objective or Non-Representational Art, art which makes no reference to the visual world. Rather, through an interesting combination of geometric masses and the evocative title, Oppenheim leaves the interpretation of the work to the imagination of the viewer.