Lovington, New Mexico, hosts the World's Greatest (and perhaps only) Lizard Race today.
Bring your lizard or iguana to Chaparral Park and cheer as they race down a sixteen-foot ramp! Or just go to observe the many lizard events held all day long.
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Lovington, New Mexico, hosts the World's Greatest (and perhaps only) Lizard Race today.
Bring your lizard or iguana to Chaparral Park and cheer as they race down a sixteen-foot ramp! Or just go to observe the many lizard events held all day long.
Suzi Gablik's collage highlights reptiles in a creative composition. Gablik, who is fascinated with unusual connections, juxtaposes unlikely elements—an Indian Buddha figure seated in a primeval swamp, for example, is combined with a pair of crocodiles and a tangle of snakes to create imaginary worlds that are curious blends of primordial fantasies and science fiction.
Source: Virginia M. Mecklenburg. Modern American Realism: The Sara Roby Foundation Collection (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press for the National Museum of American Art, 1987).
Pictured: Suzi Gablik, born 1934, Tropism #12, 1972, oil and photomechanical reproductions on canvas, 24 x 24 in., Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of the Sara Roby Foundation.