Digging Beneath Ghost Lake is a multimedia installation with sculpture, video, and two-dimensional works by artists Dave R. Clark, Jennifer Gunlock and Katie E. Stubblefield that imagines a strange, fictional desert landscape where water, and resulting human activity, were once present.

Taking its name from extinct California lakes that temporarily resurfaced during winter superstorms, this exhibition reflects on our dependency on water, and either our adaptation or reaction to its very capricious nature. As visitors meander through a surreal desert scene, they come across relics of past (or future?) human presence in what appears to be a former ocean or lake. In addition to archeological debris, newly sprouted and rather peculiar plants are also present, whose bodies are composed of both natural and human-built materials. This deserted lakebed inquires what devastating event caused a people to vacate, what was left behind, what grew back, and what new life emerged and adapted in its aftermath?