At a recent talk in Albuquerque, feminist artist and longtime New Yorker Harmony Hammond recalled persuading university librarians to insert art by women into instructional decks used by “the boys.” Her friend Lucy R. Lippard, an established art critic and activist, projected slides by women artists on the façade of the then male-dominated Whitney Museum.

Tristan Duke’s camera obscura sits dormant in the lobby of SITE Santa Fe as a preface to his solo exhibition Glacial Optics. Nearby, a short video and the aluminum mold he heats to shape the ice lenses further demystify the photographs inside SITE’s prow-shaped front gallery.