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Modernism Week Scheduled for February 16–26, Modernism Week will highlight Midcentury Modern architecture as well as art, interior and landscape design, and vintage culture in the Palm Springs area.
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Karen LaMonte Embracing Beauty
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FEBRUARY 16-19, 2017 Palm Springs Convention Center
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EXHIBITION includes work by Karen LaMonte Phillip K. Smith lll Don Saxton Michael Childers Ryan Campbell presented by
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HIGHLIGHTS
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Gallery 500
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Fashion Week
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CODA
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Agnes Pelton Daughter of the Desert
NEW GALLERY WELCOMES
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Izen Miller
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Deanna Izen Miller will open a new gallery at 73-740 El Paseo in Palm Desert on February 16
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The Art Room Cathedral City has a new addition to its Perez Road art corridor
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Lita Albuquerque Art Palm Springs Artist of the Year
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Desert X Desert X and the Coachella Valley
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H I G H L I G H T S
GALLERY 500
ABOVE
Joe Luckinbill entertaining the crowd
with his guitar; BELOW Art Patron Magazine Associate Editor Rob Piepho with Lucie Arnaz and Simon Luckinbill; BELOW LEFT Artist Bruce Dunlap pointing at his work in the exhibition.
T
he historic Alan Ladd building in
artists. The event revolved around Simon’s
the space, which had long been vacant,
life. Located at 500 South Palm
Hot Rock,” studies in organic abstraction
the building was owned and operated
Palm Springs has a new lease on
Canyon Drive, Gallery 500 opened
its doors December 9 with a star-studded event showcasing its new gallery space
and artist Simon Luckinbill’s new works. We entered the gallery’s beautiful foyer,
decorated with a fourteen-foot Christmas
tree, and were offered a holiday beverage as we listened to musician Joe Luckinbill and strolled through the well-organized
space displaying emerging and established 20 ART PatronMagazine.com
collection of new works called “Flea on a with images resembling dense forests of branches giving way to spectra of
reflected color, as if sunlight were striking dew-laden leaves. Attendees Laurence
Luckinbill, Lucie Arnaz, Harold Matzner, Joey English and Michael Childers
gathered around the works to praise the 36-year-old artist.
Gallery owner John Monahan
remarked how excited he was to use
for celebrating art. Constructed in 1968, by the Ladd family until 2002. During that time, the location went through
periodic changes but always seemed
ripe for new beginnings. Now the Five
Hundred Building is complete with a café (Ristretto), a sundry store and numerous offices, and Palm Springs residents are enjoying the fruits of John’s efforts to
reinvent the structure. Thanks, John, for giving us another gem!
H I G H L I G H T S
PALM SPRINGS STYLE FASHION WEEK
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he lights were on and the stage was set for the inaugural Palm
Springs Style Fashion Week, this past November featuring artists
and designers from around the globe. The three-day event was intended to educate viewers about innovative trends from
emerging and talented designers in the fashion world.
The schedule actually began a day
before the show with a VIP gathering at
the Ace Hotel. We had arrived fashionably late, of course, and the room was already
full of fashionistas young and old wearing that Moon is our city’s fashion leader and routinely pushes the limit in color and
Thanks to his upbeat vibe, the evening was charged with anticipation the latest colorful desert wear. The space was filled with an air of excitement over
the fact that Palm Springs might be on its
way to becoming a fashion hub, adding to the city’s already established status in the architectural and motion picture worlds. With over 20 local and international designers and over 30 local and
internationally known artists participating, the Palm Springs Style Fashion Week was
an event of eye-catching glamour and was
texture, we could make an exception for his outfit this particular night.
The emcee for the evening was one of
Palm Springs’ most outgoing television newscasters, Dan Ball. Thanks to his
upbeat vibe, the evening was charged with anticipation for the first two
presenters, siblings Julia and Andrew
Clancey of the Nashville boutique Any
Old Iron. Julia’s designs were light, airy and colorful gowns complimented by
sequined headdresses, while Andrew’s collection involved an austere New
Romantic revival of precisely tailored suits, eye masks and asymmetrical
haircuts. A succession of other talented designers showed off their best and
brightest threads as the week progressed. In addition to taking in fashions, we
clearly not going to disappoint.
spent time enjoying other features of
been set up across from the convention
the entry of the tent that reinforced the
The first night in the tent that had
center started with a presentation by
Mayor Rob Moon, who apologized for
his conservative dress suit but expressed his gratitude that the event was taking
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the show, including an art gallery near
glamour of the experience. Entertaining and educational, it was a week to
remember as our progressive small town cast its eyes in the direction of big-city sophistication.
H I G H L I G H T S
CODA GALLERY
A
well-known mainstay of Palm
and airy, and its array of serious and
opened the doors to its new home
through the viewing rooms. We couldn’t
Desert since 1987, Coda Gallery at the corner of El Paseo and
Lupine Lane on November 25 and 26. The
gallery’s opening exhibition was 30 Artists, 30 Years – a bracing mixture of newer
artists along with those it has represented since it opened in 1987.
As we entered Coda’s impressive
9,000-square-foot space, we were greeted by Director Sam Heaton, who was ready
whimsical art captured our eyes and led us help but notice the high ceilings and large street-front windows allowing visibility
to strollers along the boulevard. Mastro’s joined the celebration by offering us
delicious bites of steak and shrimp as we
circulated through the space and listened
important art movements – Laddie John
reggae duo from Joshua Tree.
Michael Gallagher in Abstract Illusionism.
to the music of Acoustic Movement, a A noteworthy aspect of Coda’s
with a smile and a signature cocktail in
philosophy is its decision to handle works
mixture of vodka, cranberry juice and
well as established figures. Collected by
hand. Called the Coda, the drink was a lemon juice, with a splash of orange juice and simple syrup. The space was open
by emerging and mid-career artists as
museums around the world, the latter
are recognized for their preeminence in
Dill in Light and Space, for instance, and One particularly striking piece was
an argon glass installation by Dill that
embodied transitioning hues of light in a simple yet uninterrupted form. Visiting
Coda is an exciting aesthetic experience as well as an education.
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AGNES PELTON Daughter of the Desert
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ime has proven that the
is evident in her work. A Cove resident
1995 book about artist Agnes
had been my neighbor, she would have
subtitle of Michael Zakian’s
Pelton – Poet of Nature – was a
prophetic choice.
Pelton was one of four female artists
featured in the 2009 Orange County
Museum’s exhibition “Illumination.”
But she’s making more news now than she ever did between 1931 and 1961,
herself, St. Anthony remarks that “if Pelton been my friend. When I walk in the wash
near her home I see the purple smoke trees she painted and I think of her.”
Pelton’s vision of the desert that so
many speed by and never see is made clear in her paintings, but while
when she painted desert landscapes and transcendentally inspired subjects in the Cove neighborhood of Cathedral City.
Pelton was an artist “ahead of her time,”
says Cathedral City Historical Society
board member Margie St. Anthony. Her
fascination with the area – from its desert light, luxuriant date palms, and wispy smoke trees to the flowering plants
thriving near her residence on F Street –
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Postcard from Palm Springs, circa 1942
(from the author’s collection) – America’s desert oasis, Palm Springs enjoyed an admirable reputation divided between it being a glamourous Hollywood hideaway surrounded by stunning scenery, date palms, lavish sunsets and the assurance of privacy, all factors contributing to Agnes Pelton making her home here in 1931. She took a closer look at the lush landscape surrounding her home inspiring her to capture the message on canvas. Her legacy, transcending time continues to captivate art historians and collectors. LEFT Seeds of Date, Agnes Pelton, 1935 (oil on canvas), from the collection of Robert and Kay Hillery – Bridging the gap between spiritual abstraction and vibrant realism, this lush interpretation of what she found dazzling in the startling beauty of the desert’s barren landscape is classic Agnes Pelton. “She believed deeply in the intrinsic poetry of natural phenomena transforming poet’s words into radiant imagery,” remarked an admiring art historian.
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as a transcendental artist had not
yet reached its zenith, and she never
enjoyed the financial success of such
contemporaries as Georgia O’Keeffe.
Pelton studied painting with Arthur
Wesley Dow at the Pratt Institute of
Art in Brooklyn, and her paintings Vine
Wood and Stone Age were selected for the 1913 New York Armory Show, known
officially as the International Exhibition of Modern Art. In time she began to develop a fascination with the theosophical
teachings of Madame H.P. Blavatsky
and such kindred beliefs as astrology.
She became a founding member of the
Transcendental Painting Group in 1938,
but by then she had already been working at her easel for seven years in the Cove, and her style was in transition.
Memories of Agnes Pelton remain
part of Cathedral City’s early history.
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When Pelton moved there, the
community’s population was around
100 hardy souls. Its first elected Mayor, Robert Hillery, recalls his father selling
Pelton the lot where she built the cottage that served as her studio and home.
Hillery’s Indian Wells residence has a
time–honored wall dedicated to Pelton paintings, including a radiant cluster
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Pelton’s cottage allowed her, as her
biographers have written, the “mystical
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security” she craved for her work. But as time passed and the once-desolate Cove was gradually invaded by construction sites, Pelton lamented the changes in
her diary. “I reluctantly watch strips of dear desert being torn up by tractors, Dorothee Naumburg
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there is an orgy of building going on,
little houses spring up everywhere and
twilight is filled with a human medley.” Pelton’s death in 1961 was a prelude to
her eventual recognition, which rightly
continues to flourish. She had avoided the commercialization of her work, although her paintings continued to intrigue
collectors and historians. Throughout
her remarkable range of subjects, from
portraits and traditional landscapes to her ethereal, symbolic works, her messages remain enigmatic. At a mere 14 by 18
inches, the seemingly innocent Vine Wood (from the Armory Show) captures one of those mystic, transcendental moments.
We can’t help but wonder what the four monkeys playing in the trees near the barefoot maiden are meant to convey.
“It is a classic Agnes Pelton moment,” remarks Los Angeles designer and
photographer Timmy Woods, one of her admirers.
When the Huntington Library in
San Marino announced in December
2016 that Pelton’s 1945 painting Passion Flower had officially been added to its prestigious collection, the news
reverberated throughout the art world, even in California. Pelton had toiled in
some obscurity, and as Ann Japenga had written in California Desert Art in 2010
about the artist’s treasured cottage in the Cove, “hardly anyone remembers she once lived there.”
Perhaps the first page had turned
in 1995 when the Palm Springs Desert
Museum, whose Associate Curator of Art at the time was Michael Zakian, brought Pelton into the art world’s limelight.
Then in 2013 the Cathedral City Public Art Commission, chaired by Marilyn
Cooper, curated a Pelton exhibit with
several important paintings installed in the soaring rotunda of the impressive City Council chambers. Professor
Nancy Strow Sheley of California State University, Long Beach, presented the
one-woman show Bringing Light to Life
the same year. Sheley has also portrayed
the artist on several occasions at Pelton’s former home, currently the residence of Agnes Pelton Society founders Simeon
Den and Peter Paladino. And Cathedral
City has added Agnes Pelton Way to the street signage on F Street.
It is understandable when she was
asked her opinion on how academics will rank Pelton in the future, Sheley replied, “she doesn’t ’fit’ into any categories, she was one of a kind.” 30 ART PatronMagazine.com
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G A L L E R I E S CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT
New Izen Miller Gallery Deanna Izen Miller will open a new gallery at 73-740 El Paseo in Palm Desert on February 16
Miller began her career in the art
world 36 years ago in Venice, CA.
She studied at UCLA, going on to
represent artists from Los Angeles
and the San Francisco Bay area and
Michael Davis Scintillation, Steele, cooper, painted plywood, charcoal, blue glass crystal 57 by 57 by 8 inches; Barry Orleans Irruption 38 by 30 inches acrylic on canvas; Jay McCafferty Blue #65, solar pigmented 60 by 60 inches.
art acquisition and leasing programs
Luebtow, Barry Orleans, Ed Flynn
opened the Deanna Izen Miller
specializes in contemporary paintings,
as well as fine art appraisals. She Gallery in Venice Beach in 1994.
Today Miller represents emerging,
and Masha Keating. The gallery sculpture and works on paper.
Miller possesses a unique combi-
working with a number who have
mid-career and established artists
nation of artistic expertise and solid
figures in the development of the
the world, including Carole Beauvais,
a valuable asset to her clients.
since been recognized as seminal West Coast School. In 1984 she
established Deanna Miller Fine Art, a
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from the Coachella Valley and around Carol Bishop, Ilana Bloch, Catherine Bohrman, Michael Davis, Vivian
Flynn, Ruth Gonzales, Marcy and
Ron Gregory, Katherine Kean, John
business acumen, making her services
For more information about exhibitions and special events at the gallery, visit www.izenmillergallery.com.
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G A L L E R I E S
Welcoming the Art Room Cathedral City has a new addition to its Perez Road art corridor and sharing the valley’s historic
original paintings by Charles Levier
himself in learning about the desert’s
original automotive concept art from
Mid-Century artifacts. He immersed
architectural beginnings and the part that a few talented pioneers played in changing its history. He started
by opening Modern Home Design
Showroom and consulting with clients With its rare vintage furniture,
abstract and expressionist art and
decorative objects, the Art Room is an eclectic collection for the MidCentury enthusiast.
Owner Mark Davis arrived in
Palm Springs in 2000 with a vision
of dedicating his time to preserving
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who wanted an exclusive Mid-Century look. With great success, he landed projects like E. Stewart Williams’
Kenaston House and was able to dream bigger. More recently he opened the
Art Room, an impressive 3200-squarefoot showroom where he could
display his entire collection of unique decorative items. The space features
once owned by Elvis Presley, as well as General Motors, Chrysler and Ford. The Art Room celebrates twice a year with shows featuring new artists, and has
scheduled an architectural photography exhibition on Sunday, Feb. 19, called “Contrast + Repetition,” organized by Sydney Institute of Technology professor and historian Annalisa
Capurro. Make a point to stop by to see this amazing collection! The Art Room 68845 Perez Road, Suite H7 Cathedral City, 92234
Modernism Week Palm Springs ✴ ✴
Scheduled for February 16–26, Modernism Week will highlight Midcentury Modern architecture as well as art, interior and landscape design, and vintage culture in the Palm Springs area. PARTY
For the twelfth year, the annual festival will feature a wide array of events, among them the Palm Springs Modernism Show & Sale and tours of iconic homes in more than 25 neighborhoods, including the Signature Home Tour on both weekends. Other highlights are a worldclass series of film screenings, tours of the historic Annenberg Estate at Sunnylands, and a Palm Springs Walk of Stars dedication for John Lautner. Rounding out the attractions are a display of classic cars, a vintage travel trailer exhibition, nightly parties, garden tours, a series of talks about Mexico City Modern, and this year’s Modernism Week Show House, the Christopher Kennedy Compound at Villa Golightly.
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Opening Night One of the highlights of the first weekend is the annual Modernism
Week Opening Night Party on Thursday, February 16, to be presented by Ferguson Kitchen, Bath & Lighting Gallery. This red carpet affair
incorporates a 1960s-era spy-movie theme paying homage to the James
Bond film Diamonds Are Forever, which includes a famous scene shot at the Elrod House in Palm Springs. The structure was designed by this year’s Walk of Stars honoree, John Lautner.
CULTURE
MEXICO CITY MODERN Educational outreach has always been a core element of Modernism Week, and this year that trend continues with talks and films about Mexico City Modern. A series of four presentations on the subject will be conducted by leading experts, including Anne Rowe, Director of Collections and Exhibitions at the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands, and Keith Eggener, author of Luis Barragan’s Gardens of El Pedregal. Also speaking will be Luis M. Castaneda, author of Spectacular Mexico – Design, Propaganda and the 1968 Olympics, and Cristina Lopez Uribe,
an architect on the faculty of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México. Following Modernism Week, a Mexico City Modern Tour produced by Modernism Week will visit the modernist residences and structures discussed during the presentation and many others.
Premier Double Decker Bus Tours are the best way to see the architecture of Palm Springs. Narrated by knowledgeable docents, these tours traverse the city and highlight the most interesting architectural marvels.
Designed by midcentury architect William F. Cody for millionaire socialite James Logan Abernathy in 1962, the 4,680 square foot pavilion-style Abernathy house is available for tours on February 21.
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FILM
SCREENINGS + EXHIBITS Once again, Modernism Week will present a variety of film screenings,
including the U.S. film premiere of Harry Seidler – Modernist, a new documentary from Sue Maslin, the producer of the current hit The
Dressmaker. The Architecture Film Series will feature the West Coast premiere of Eero Saarinen: The Architect Who Saw The Future, with
cinematography by his son Eric Saarinen, who will be in attendance. Another important screening is the West Coast premiere of Elissa
Brown’s Windshield – A Vanished Vision, which recounts the story of the wealthy family that commissioned Richard Neutra to build a massive
summer home. Claremont Modern: The Convergence of Art + Architecture at Midcentury and Design for Modern Living: Millard Sheets and the Claremont Art Community, 1935–1975 will also be shown.
Other exciting programs include presentations celebrating the
photography of Slim Aarons and his work in Palm Springs, a new
documentary film on the history of neon signs, presentations and visual displays examining the architecture of the Desert Modernists, and tours and talks about modern gardens and outdoor living.
The Racquet Club Estates 9th Annual Home Tour and Reception will showcase the midcentury modern beauty of six unique Alexander homes built in the late 1950s and early 1960s, as well as street views of the seven historic Alexander “Steel Houses” designed in 1961 by respected architect Donald Wexler.
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Acclaimed modernist architect John Lautner, FAIA will receive a special star at a free special dedication ceremony on February 17. Special guests and friends of Mr. Lautner will speak about his important role in desert modern Midcentury architecture features clean lines and a refined
design and the legacy of his
aesthetic, juxtaposed by the often rugged desert terrain.
iconic structures.
Tours of iconic midcentury modern homes provide a rare glimpse into
Unique art and architecture provides a fascinating glimpse into the
the interiors of the iconic midcentury architecture in Palm Springs.
midcentury lifestyle, showcased at the Show & Sale.
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COMMUNITY
MEET + GREET CAMP, Modernism Week’s ‘Community and Meeting Place,’ will be located in a tented structure on Palm Canyon Drive near Baristo Road. Introduced in 2015 as a central location for attendees to shop, dine, learn, and relax between tours and parties, CAMP will feature stimulating programs and opportunities to meet industry luminaries through a variety of planned activities. It is also the ticket hub for the daily Premier Double Decker Architectural Bus Tour and – new in 2017 – group rides on Sunny Cycle electric bikes through architecturally significant neighborhoods.
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Oasis Tower and illuminated modern – The Illuminated Modern Sunset Bus Tour highlights architecturally significant midcentury and modern building facades. Buildings are illuminated with various lighting and typeface styles identifying the architect and year of construction. Enjoy the desert sunset and cool breezes atop an open-air double decker bus while viewing Palm Springs’s architectural heritage!
DEDICATION
JOHN LAUTNER On Friday, February 17, the public is
invited to attend a special dedication on the Palm Springs Walk of Stars
for John Lautner, renowned architect of the iconic Bob Hope Estate and
Elrod House. The ceremony will be held at 2 p.m. at the Palm Springs
Art Museum Architecture and Design Center, Edwards Harris Pavilion, 300 South Palm Canyon Drive.
All events are open to the public, with tickets on sale One of the highlights of the 11 day festival is the two day Vintage Trailer Show,
at modernismweek.com. A portion of ticket proceeds
which showcases a diverse collection of trailers, buses, motorhomes and
benefits the nonprofit organization Modernism Week
vintage vehicles. Owners will be on hand to talk about their trailer’s history,
and other local preservation, neighborhood and
restoration and travels. There will also be a fun mix of retail vendors whose
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Lita Albuquerque Palm Springs 2017 Artist of the Year Lita Albuquerque, a pioneering artist and leader of California’s Light and Space movement in the 1970s, will receive the Artist of the Year Award during Art Palm Springs, held February 16 through 19. Lita Albuquerque, Stellar Axis: Antarctica, 2006, Ross Ice Shelf, Antarctica.
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PHOTO BY JEAN DE POMEREU, ARCHIVAL INKJET PRINT 16.5 X 25 IN. – IMAGE COURTESY PETER BLAKE GALLERY
Donna Davies, Vice President of the Art Group for Urban Expositions,
the producer of Art Palm Springs.
“The scope of her work is inspiring, COURTESY PETER BLAKE GALLERY
as is her dedication to imparting her
Lita Albuquerque, Spine of the Earth, 1980. El Mirage Dry Lake Bed, Mojave Desert, California.
Coinciding with the Presidents’
Day weekend, Art Palm Springs
brings more than 60 galleries from the United States, South America
and Europe, along with hundreds of artists from around the globe, to the Palm Springs Convention Center. Represented at the fair
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by Peter Blake Gallery of Laguna
Beach, Albuquerque joins the ranks of past Artist of the Year honorees
such as Judy Chicago, Mel Ramos, Jennifer Bartlett, Fletcher Benton and Larry Bell.
“We are so pleased to have Lita
as the 2017 Artist of the Year,” says
knowledge to the next generation of
artists as a member of the Art Center
College of Design in Pasadena, where she has been on the faculty for more than 20 years.”
“With its closeness to Los
Angeles and Joshua Tree, Palm
Springs is a place that I go to for
inspiration, motivation and solitude,” Albuquerque explains. “Standing in
the presence of the mountains, there,
in the middle of the desert, everything drops out but the silence, and I can begin to listen. That listening is the beginning of inspiration, from one form of expression of the desert,
through my body, to the canvas or field or object. Getting this award
here means a lot – amidst the close
environmental artist, painter and
the years within the community as
realities of time and space through
relationships I have developed over well as with my relationship to the land itself.”
sculptor who brings together the
Drawing upon such far-flung
Valley, Albuquerque uses expansive natural backgrounds for her largescale installations and ephemeral works. She is known as an
Albuquerque’s commissioned
works can be seen at such diverse
throughout her career, which
McLean, Virginia, the Evo DeConcini
Albuquerque has earned acclaim
concepts of cosmology and everyday
locales as Antarctica and Death
the Cairo Biennale Prize.
her unique visual language.
continually questions the elemental
The scope of her work is inspiring, as is her dedication to imparting her knowledge to the next generation of artists.
that she exhibited Sol Star, which won
culture. Thoughtful and imaginative, Albuquerque uses these concepts as “a living, functional cosmology for 21st century culture within public consciousness.”
Albuquerque’s works include
her pivotal 1980 installation The Washington Monument Project,
which was featured as part of the
International Sculpture Conference and which led to commissions
at major sites around the world,
including the Great Pyramids on the
Giza Plateau. It was there, as the U.S. representative at the Cairo Biennale,
locations as Gannett Publishers in
Federal Courthouse in Tucson, the Palos Verdes Central Library, the
Koll/Obayashi Corporation in Los
Angeles, and the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies Library. In addition,
her works are on display in museums
around the world, including the Palm Springs Art Museum, the Archives
of American Art at the Smithsonian
Institution, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York City, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Art Palm Springs takes place at the Palm Springs Convention Center. Tickets and a complete schedule are available at www.art-palmsprings.com.
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Going to Extremes Desert X and the Coachella Valley
When we see or hear an “X” after anything,
our instinct is to think extreme – extreme sports,
say, or extreme makeover. But extreme art? From February 25 to April 17, however, the Coachella Valley is ground zero for Desert X, an extreme
event that will present art in public places in a very dramatic fashion.
Desert X is a site-specific show that allows artists
to respond to the unique conditions of Palm Springs and the surrounding valley. The visionaries behind
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exciting. To learn more about the project, Art Patron talked to Susan Davis, president of the board of
Desert X and editorial director of the Annenberg Retreat at Sunnylands.
“There was not just one trigger that led me to
found Desert X,” Davis says of the impetus behind the show. “I moved to Palm Springs seven years ago. I slowly learned about it and the Coachella
Valley. I fell in love with a community that I found to be amazingly rich in history, diverse socio-
economically – especially the extremes that exist
here – and of course love the beautiful environment in which we live.
“But I was also struck by the fact that there are
festivals and events throughout the year but none
focused on contemporary art,” Davis continues. “I
know that there are many, many people who spend
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time here who collect contemporary art. We are home to many well-known artists. The Palm Springs Art
Museum has a very good collection of contemporary art. Yet people do not visit the Coachella Valley to see art! My own passion is contemporary art, and
frankly, I missed the energy, the way of seeing the
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world and the dialogue it inspires and has always brought to my life.”
Desert X differs from
“Marilyn”
other contemporary art events in several key
ways. Unlike ArtPrize,
An exhibition of the life of Marilyn Monroe
Desert X is a curated show. The board of
directors selects artists and the artwork is
Photography by Kelley, Barris, Greene, Schiller, Bernard,
selected by a curator.
Besides Davis, the board
Kirkland and many more top Hollywood photographers.
includes former Palm
January 15 thru March 15, 2017
Springs Art Museum
Director Steven Nash and
Coming “Graham Nash” Opening April 2, 2017
famed artist Ed Ruscha. “We did not solicit
proposals or have a jury,”
Critics, reviewers and auction houses all agree, “Fine art photography is a new affordable collectible.”
Davis explains. “The artists selected have
national and international
Also featuring: Ansel Adams, Graham Nash, Ernie Brooks, Linda McCartney, Arnold Newman, George Hurrell, Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Robert Hansen and Baron Adolf de Meyer
reputations and virtually all are collected by
major museums. They
were asked to visit the
Coachella Valley to learn about it and to seek
inspiration for a new
piece. They then worked
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with artistic director Neville Wakefield on their vision and the feasibility of
the project they had in mind. The art is expected to provide a different way of
seeing elements of the valley – often the environment, but also the area’s special socio/cultural/historical elements.”
Participating artists include Will Boone, Glenn Kaino, Sherin Guirguis, Neville Wakefield and Tavares Strachen.
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Given the diverse and divergent factors
that comprise the Coachella Valley, Desert X is no small undertaking. “While the
exhibition is free to the public,” Davis
says, “it is very costly to produce. The
underwriting has come from the board,
valley philanthropists, a very significant group of 100 founding members from
around the US, and local sponsors who are providing donations and in-kind contributions.
Davis anticipates that the audience for
Desert X will be as varied and diverse as the region. “We expect ‘cultural tourists’ as well as those who are interested in
the work of our presenting artists. There are people interested in cultural events
in general who will venture here. There
are residents and frequent visitors to the
valley who may not visit the art museum but may out of curiosity visit one or
more of the installations. And there are people who may know nothing about
contemporary art or Desert X who may
come upon one of the works and who will be intrigued enough to visit others. The
board and the staff believe strongly in the power of art to be transformative.
“Additionally,” says Davis, “the
Coachella Valley presents an amazing canvas for art and has proved to be inspirational to artists. Providing a
new way for visitors to the Coachella
Valley to explore beyond their country club or hotel swimming pool, to give
them a way to see the Coachella valley through the lens of contemporary art, will be wonderful.”
For more information about Desert X, see www.desertx.org.
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Spectrum Indian Wells runs from
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EDITOR’S PICK SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 11AM-3PM
Celebrate the ART, MUSIC, & DANCE of the Historic Cathedral City Cove The public is invited to the annual Home Tour of Historic Cathedral City Cove Homes and Artists on Feb 12, from 11am-3pm, commemorating the 70th Anniversary of when Agnes Pelton’s home was used as the first art gallery in Cathedral City, which continues today as the Desert Art Center in Palm Springs. • Visit historic adobe, pre-WWII, and mid-century homes and home/studios of professional Cathedral City artists; view and purchase sculpture, painting, photography and folk art • Tour the remarkable homes of the celebrated desert artists, Agnes Pelton and Val Samuelson, and noted writer, Willard Price
Works by David Henry, Sculptor and Painter Opening, February 8, 5-9 pm. Woodman/Shimko Gallery, 1105 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs. WoodmanShimkoGallery.com; (760) 233-1230 NOW-FEBRUARY 11
Jack Walker Show: “Sculpting the West, One Sculpture at a Time” Desert Art Collection, 45-350 San Luis Rey Ave at El Paseo, Palm Desert. Bronze sculptures by cowboy artist Jack Walker, who will be working in the sculpture garden daily, 1-4pm. DesertArtCollection.com; (760) 674-9955 NOW-MARCH 31
“Masters of Abstract Art” Featuring DiMora Art Car: Vicci 6.2. Rebecca Fine Art Gallery, 68895 Perez Rd #7, Cathedral City. Joe Novak, Mario Pikus, Donald Spencer, Robert Tahar, Robert Reeves, and Nathan Slate Joseph. RebeccaFineArt.net; (760) 534-5888 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 6-8 PM
Introducing “The Marble Series” by Rosenberg Tom Ross Gallery 2682 S Cherokee Way, Palm Springs (at the Backstreet Art District). A recent resident of Palm Springs, abstract artist Rosenberg introduces a new series of circular works painted on clear acrylic panels. Inspired by his childhood memories of the awe and wonderment of looking at glass marbles close up, these paintings suggest imaginative worlds within their spherical confines. TomRossGallery.com; (505) 470-7932
• Purchase limited edition, hi-resolution reproduction prints of Pelton paintings • View the Agnes Pelton Society murals commissioned to local artists on Chuperosa Lane • Walk through the exotic gardens of a former clandestine casino and bordello • Enjoy live entertainment of dance, classical and pop acoustic music • Participate making art onsite in a garden at the children’s art workshop • See an avant garde Butoh dance performance of moving sculpture by the Simeon Den Dance Theater in the Pelton Sculpture Garden The participating homes are located in Cathedral City Cove, conveniently accessible by walking, driving, and a City shuttle will be available. A printed program will be available on the day of the event and will be your passport ticket, which includes a map and information about the homes, artists, and activities of the day. Presented by theAgnes Pelton Society (a 501c3 nonprofit Arts Advocacy and Arts Education organization). TICKETS $15 per person (children free), available online at www.AgnesPeltonSociety.com and on day of the event at the ticket booth in front of City Hall on the Festival Lawn, 68600 East Palm Canyon Drive.
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WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 1-18
Patrick Walsh Show: “Painting with the Camera” Ý Desert Art Collection, 45-350 San Luis Rey Ave at El Paseo, Palm Desert. Photomosaic landscapes from a very unusual perspective. DesertArtCollection.com; (760) 674-9955 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 5-8PM
Opening Artist Reception: Sculptures by Theodore Gall Exhibition continues through February 24. CODA Gallery, 73-400 El Paseo, Palm Desert. Although Ted Gall’s work has not been limited to the human form, it has been his primary focus throughout his career. His compelling figures are most often placed in thought-provoking situations. Codagallery.com; (760) 346-4661 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 3, 5-8PM
Opening Reception: Paintings by Trevor Goss Exhibition continues through February 24. CODA Gallery, 73-400 El Paseo, Palm Desert. With an MFA from London’s Hornsey College of Art, Trevor Goss was a contemporary, experimental painter who worked with holographic material and developed light refractive holographic treatments. Codagallery.com; (760) 346-4661
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 5-8PM
Artist’s Reception: Zoë Ann Fischer Rebecca Fine Art Gallery, 68895 Perez Rd #7, Cathedral City. Don’t miss an opportunity to chat with the artist and get a different perspective on her art! The gallery also is showcasing the exhibit “Masters of Abstract Art.” RebeccaFineArt.net; (760) 534-5888 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 10AM-4PM
Art on Main Street Old Town La Quinta, 78100 Main St, La Quinta 92253. Over 80 artists exhibit and sell paintings, mixed media, jewelry, textiles, photography, ceramics, and sculpture. Live entertainment. Free admission and parking. OldTownLaQuinta.com/events; Information: (310) 986-5444 WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 4-7PM
1st Annual Priority Lighting Builders Expo & Art Fair The Art Place, 41801 Corporate Way, Palm Desert. The Art Place and the Desert Valley Builders Association present the 1st Annual Priority Lighting Builders Expo & Art Fair! Observe one-of-a-kind home features and home building and décor demonstrations while enjoying food, music, and art. ArtPlacepd.com; (760) 776-2268 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10, 5-7PM
Opening of Bruce Kimerer solo painting exhibition “Plein Air” Simeon Den Gallery, 68895 Perez Rd, #I-27, Cathedral City. Exhibition runs through March 5. SimeonDenGallery.com
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 10-23
Gabe Fernandez: Palm Springs Images in Oil Ý Opening February 10, 5-9pm. Woodman/Shimko Gallery, 1105 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs. WoodmanShimkoGallery.com; (760) 233-1230 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 6-9PM
Featured Artist’s Reception: Michael Goldzweig Fusion Art Gallery, 4116 Matthew Dr, Palm Springs (in the Backstreet Art District). Fusion artist Michael Goldzweig will showcase his vibrant and energetic abstracts. The show runs February 1-25. FusionArtps.com, (760) 832-7568 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 11-MARCH 4
Jamey Alexander Santos Opening Reception February 11, 6-8pm Joshua Tree Art Gallery, 61607 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree. Santos’ first one-man show showcases his electrifying use of color and form in his new paintings. “Don’t” addresses issues of his personal anxiety regarding daily functioning and his uneasiness with social interactions. Saturdays 10am-3pm, Sundays noon3pm, weekdays by appointment. JoshuaTreeArtGallery.com; (760) 366-3636 ART PatronMagazine.com 57
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1-5PM
Opening Reception Ý LA Artcore-Brewery Annex, 650 A South Ave 21, Los Angeles. Terry Hastings is delighted to announce the showing of two of his photographs, “Stay with Me” and “Entangled.” Show runs through February 26. SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 11AM-3PM
Home Tour of Historic & Artists’ Homes Sponsored by the Agnes Pelton Society, Cathedral City Cove. $15 passport to home sites available online at www. agnespeltonsociety.com or at Will Call on day of the event at Simeon Den Gallery, 68895 Perez Rd, #I-27. (760) 495-3564. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 6-9PM; FRIDAY & SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 17 & 18, 10AM-8PM; SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 10AM-6PM
Art Palm Springs Jorge Mendez Gallery booth, Palm Springs Convention Center. Fine art fair presented by galleries from around the world exhibiting modern and contemporary art in a variety of media including painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media. BarbaraGothard.com; (310) 401-4645 FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 17-MARCH 2
Tim Scapes: Provincetown Artist Does Palm Springs Opening February 17, 5-9pm. Woodman/Shimko Gallery, 1105 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs. WoodmanShimkoGallery.com; (760) 233-1230 SATURDAYS, FEBRUARY 18, 10AM-4PM
Art on Main Street Old Town La Quinta, 78100 Main St, La Quinta, 92253. Over 80 artists exhibit and sell paintings, mixed-media, jewelry, textiles, photography, ceramics, and sculpture. Live entertainment. Free admission & parking. OldTownLaQuinta.com/events; (310) 986-5444 SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 6-8PM
“Multiplicity” The Eye of the Artist Izen Miller Gallery, 73-740 El Paseo, Palm Desert. Show includes artists from throughout the United States working in paint, sculpture, digital and limited-edition prints. “Conversation with the Artists” Saturday, March 4, 5 pm. IzenMillerGallery.com; (760) 779-0808 SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 6PM
The Waring International Piano Competition Black & White Gala Omni Rancho Las Palmas Hotel & Spa, Rancho Mirage. Black tie optional hosted cocktails, music program, gourmet dinner and dancing to raise funds for the 2017 Waring International Piano Competition. $300 includes tax deduction. VWIPC.org; (760) 773-2575 58 ART PatronMagazine.com
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 24-MARCH 9
Robert Bradshaw: Paintings That Tell a Story Opening February 24, 5-9pm Woodman/Shimko Gallery, 1105 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs. WoodmanShimkoGallery.com; (760) 233-1230 WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1-JULY 15
JTNP Juried Art Exhibition Call for Art 29 Palms Art Gallery, Twentynine Palms. Call for entries for 5th Annual Joshua Tree National Park Juried Art Exhibition, on display October 1-November 1. Cash awards. JTNParts.org; director@jtnparts.org WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1-18
Cliff Kearns Show: “Celebrity, Brand & Numbers” Desert Art Collection, 45-350 San Luis Rey Ave at El Paseo, Palm Desert. Contemporary canvas portrait paintings of Liz Taylor, Marilyn Monroe and more. DesertArtCollection.com; (760) 674-9955 FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 5-8 PM
Opening Reception: Paintings by Charley Snow CODA Gallery, 73-400 El Paseo, Palm Desert. When Charley Snow graduated with an MFA from the University of Utah, he wanted to focus on painting the figure. He never really planned on portraying beefy, four-legged creatures on canvas. “I soon discovered that every cow had its own personality and gesture.” Exhibition continues through March 24. CodaGallery.com; (760) 346-4661 FRIDAY, MARCH 3, 5-8PM
Opening Reception: Paintings by Ben Steele. CODA Gallery, 73-400 El Paseo, Palm Desert. Ben Steele considers himself to be on the outside of the art world looking in. Rather than fitting any specific movement, he’s best described as an art chameleon, using his work to comment on the history of art as a whole. Exhibition continues through March 24. CodaGallery.com; (760) 346-4661
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SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 5-8PM
Artist’s Reception: Mario Pikus Rebecca Fine Art Gallery, 68895 Perez Rd #7, Cathedral City. Meet and greet Mario Pikus, originally from Argentina, mentored by Jacques Lipchitz in NYC, now living in Rancho Mirage and featured in our ongoing exhibition “Masters of Abstract Art.” RebeccaFineArt.net; (760) 534-5888 SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 6-9PM
Opening Reception: Featured Artist Alicia Savio Fusion Art Gallery, 4116 Matthew Dr, Palm Springs (in the Backstreet Art District). Alicia Savio will showcase her dance sculptures and paintings. Show runs from March 1 through 31. FusionArtps.com; (760) 832-7568 FRIDAY, MARCH 10, 5-7 PM
Opening of “Virtual Landscapes” Simeon Den Gallery, 68895 Perez Rd #I-27, Cathedral City. Solo photography exhibit by Gary Borgstedt. SimeonDenGallery.com; (310) 801-6538
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Woodman/Shimko Gallery, 1105 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs. Showing works from a private collection never before seen. Exhibit runs March 10 through 23. WoodmanShimkoGallery.com; (760) 233-1230
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Opening Reception March 8, 6-8pm Joshua Tree Art Gallery, 61607 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree. Group show featuring new works by Doug Dolde, Kim Chasen, Frederick Fulmer, Marcia Geiger, Timothy Hearsum, Brian Leatart, Gregg Ross, and Tobi Taboada. Saturdays 10am-3pm, Sundays noon-3pm, weekdays by appointment. JoshuaTreeArtGallery.com; (760) 366-3636 SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 10AM-4 PM
4th Annual Rancho Mirage Artists Studio Tour (Begins at Rancho Mirage City Hall) The 4th Annual Rancho Mirage Tour of Artists’ Homes & Studios is a self-guided tour of the homes and studios of Rancho Mirage artists working in various media. New this year, in addition to photography and painting, the tour includes artists working in glass, ceramics, and textiles. Registration is required at Rancho Mirage City Hall on the day of the event. There you will receive a map and lanyard and be ready to follow the self-guided tour at your own pace. A pop-up art gallery at City Hall will showcase additional artists, not part of the home and studio tour. (760) 341-7323 SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 10AM-4 PM
Art on Main Street Old Town La Quinta, 78100 Main St, La Quinta. Over 80 artists exhibit and sell paintings, mixed media, jewelry, textiles, photography, ceramics, and sculpture. Live entertainment. Free admission and parking. OldTownLaQuinta.com/events; (310) 986-5444 SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 6-9PM
Opening Reception: “Pathways” Jorge Mendez Gallery, 756 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs. Exhibition of international women artists runs March 18-April 20. Gallery hours Thursday-Saturday 11am-5 pm, Sunday noon-4pm. BarbaraGothard.com; (310) 401-4645 60 ART PatronMagazine.com
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Paintings by Aïda Marini Schneider: “Remnants II”
an eclectic collection of all things modern
Desert Art Collection, 45-350 San Luis Rey Ave at El Paseo, Palm Desert. Intriguing abstract oil-on-board paintings that remain forever mysterious. DesertArtandHome.com; (760) 674-9955 FRIDAY, MARCH 24, 5-9PM
Opening: Paintings by Rebecca Haines Woodman/Shimko Gallery, 1105 N Palm Canyon Dr, Palm Springs, 92262. Santa Fe artist Haines paints wildlife as no one else can. Show runs March 24-April 5. WoodmanShimkoGallery@gmail.com; (760) 322-1230 SATURDAY, MARCH 25, 6-8PM
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Tuesday- Saturday 11-5 Sunday 12-5 Special Hours during Modernism Week
Izen Miller Gallery, 73-740 El Paseo, Palm Desert. Show featuring Carol Bishop, Ed Flynn, Vivian Flynn and Christopher Georgesco, Los Angeles artists working in encaustic, painted assemblage, sculpture and painted relief. “Conversations with the Artists” Saturday, April 8, 5pm. IzenMillerGallery.com; (760) 779-0808 SUNDAY, MARCH 26, 7 PM
The Waring Solo Preliminary Round of the Waring International Piano Competition Indian Wells Theater, CSUSB-Palm Desert Campus, 37500 Cook St, Palm Desert. Virtuoso pianists from around the world each play 30 minutes of varied classical piano repertoire. Free admission, free parking. VWIPC.org; (760) 773-2575 MONDAY, MARCH 27-FRIDAY, MARCH 31, VARIOUS TIMES
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The Waring International Piano Competition Solo Finals Indian Wells Theater, CSUSB-Palm Desert Campus, 37-500 Cook St, Palm Desert, CA. Three virtuoso international pianists each play 45 minutes of varied classical piano repertoire, followed by awards presentation. $20 per ticket, free parking. VWIPC.org; (760) 773-2575 SATURDAY, APRIL 1-22, 5 –7PM. PERFORMANCE AT 6PM
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Opening: Paintings by Juan-Manuel Alonso Simeon Den Gallery, 68895 Perez Rd, I-27 Cathedral City. The paintings are images of dancers, and a live performance by the Simeon Den Dance Theater will be presented, featuring original choreography reflecting Alonso’s bold, brightly colored paintings. SimeonDen@gmail.com; (310) 801-6538 SUNDAY, APRIL 2, 2PM
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Opening Artist’s Reception: Laddie John Dill, Mixed Media CODA Gallery, 73-400 El Paseo, Palm Desert. A central figure in the California Light and Space movement, Laddie John Dill has been crafting light and earthy materials such as concrete, glass, sand, and metal into luminous sculptures, wall pieces, and installations since the 1970s. Exhibition runs April 7-28. CodaGallery.Com; (760) 346-4661 FRIDAY, APRIL 7-30
Santiago Garcia Show: “Converse Shoes” Desert Art Collection, 45-350 San Luis Rey Ave at El Paseo, Palm Desert. Highly sought-after contemporary oil paintings. DesertArtCollection.com; (760) 674-9955 SATURDAY, APRIL 8-MAY 6
Opening Reception April 8, 6-8 pm “3 Sisters: Off the Grid” Joshua Tree Art Gallery, 61607 29 Palms Hwy, Joshua Tree. Sisters Judy Wold, Mary Wold Souza, and Martha Wold Cornwall reunite to share their creative expressions. Saturdays 10am-3pm, Sundays noon-3pm, weekdays by appointment. Joshuatreeartgallery.com; (760) 366-3636 SATURDAY, APRIL 8-JUNE 30
“This.Is.Now” Opening Exhibit: Saturday April 8, 2017, 5 - 8 pm Rebecca Fine Art Gallery, 68895 Perez Rd #7, Cathedral City. Exhibit focusing on the modern art of today, with different styles and media. A little political and provocative but definitely contemporary. Includes Tim Townsley, Steve Bein, Mandy Main, and Gerald Patrick. RebeccaFineArt.net; (760) 534-5888 SATURDAY, APRIL 8, 10AM-4PM
Art on Main Street Þ Old Town La Quinta, 78100 Main St, La Quinta. Over 80 artists exhibit and sell paintings, mixed media, jewelry, textiles, photography, ceramics, and sculpture. Live entertainment. Free admission and parking. OldTownLaQuinta.com/events; (310) 986-5444
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FORGOTTEN BEAUTY Art Patron talks to Michael Gallagher and Jack Reilly about Abstract Illusionism restrictions and allowing viewers
to perceive colors, not recognizable
images, as the primary subject matter.
It was in the 1960s that Al Held, Ronald
Davis and Allan D’Arcangelo started
using modes of perception and elements of color as a way to create another
kind of abstraction. They arranged
recognizable
geometric objects on
a canvas and enhanced the
experience with shadows behind the
objects, projecting the image forward off
the surface. This represented a break with the tradition of depicting objects receding into the canvas or toward a focal point within the pictorial plane as we see in
early examples of the technique of trompe l’oeil (“deceive the eye”). We can say that
these artists laid the foundations on which others created the movement of Abstract
Illusionism, as New York art dealers Louis K. Meisel and Ivan Karp called it.
Artists James Havard, Jack Lembeck,
Tony King, Michael Gallagher, George
Green and Jack Reilly can be viewed as
Jack Reilly, Floating Image, 1994, 38x42 inches,
the forerunners of the movement, using
acrylic polymers on shaped canvas.
three-dimensional painting as a way
Collection of Rob Piepho, Palm Springs, CA
D
uring the 1970s and
began to treat the canvas as a window
a new style transformed
techniques for suggesting depth with
‘80s, artists working in the pictorial plane into
a three-dimensional space by using
shadows and angles to challenge our perceptions in an abstract way.
Over the preceding hundreds of
years, artists had accustomed our eyes
onto the unconscious, combining
realistically depicted imagery based on random thoughts to evoke a Freudian
universe. They placed their subjects in
a space in which our eyes could explore our fears and hopes and desires.
By the late 1940s, however, artists had
to the fact that a flat canvas could
reverted to the idea that the canvas is
world beyond its two-dimensional
splattered paint onto his canvases,
transport us into a three-dimensional surface. But in the 1920s the Surrealists 68 ART PatronMagazine.com
essentially a flat surface. Jackson Pollock breaking out of the confines of academic
to create abstract works. Each had his
own style and ideas about the direction that depth perception and abstraction
could take him. In order to understand this shifting paradigm, Art Patron
reached out to Michael Gallagher and Jack Reilly, asking them to share their
unique experiences at the height of the movement. Gallagher lived in New
York and Reilly in Los Angeles, and
the two had approached the movement differently, with Gallagher interested
in undefined abstract forms and Reilly
more attracted to sharply defined shapes.
But these spaces were barely habitable,
he remembers. They were missing floors and had bad plumbing and electrical connections. When businesses were
closed on lower levels at night and on
weekends, there might be no heat. This was Bohemian living, as Gallagher describes it – surviving “in a space where an animal could die.”
There were fewer than half a dozen
galleries in the neighborhood, but
artists were just as respected as any
other profession. Gallagher remembers becoming fascinated early in his career Michael Gallagher, 4X, 1978, 72x70 inches, acrylic and oil on canvas. Private collction.
Educated at Yale, Gallagher explains
that New York’s art world has
changed immensely since the 1970s.
He remembers the Lower Manhattan
district of SoHo as being a warehouse area of light manufacturing (mostly
with exploring modes of perception in
fine art, specifically painting. “Learning
about the various schemes deployed for constructing illusions – overlapping,
scale and placement, linear perspective, relative hue and value, chiaroscuro
and atmospheric perspective – fueled further study.”
Gallagher and his Yale colleagues
printing and garment shops) supported
created a co-op named Razor Gallery on
population. Business was going through
shows” in which “Kurt Vonnegut gave
by a diversified blue-collar immigrant a depression and large loft spaces
became available for very little money.
West Broadway where they had “atypical readings and Annie Sprinkle showed her wire mesh house models inhabited by
Jack Reilly, Ace, 1980, 60x80 inches, acrylic polymers on shaped canvas. Private Collection, Los Angeles, CA
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horizontal and vertical lines creating a reference point in layers of loosely
applied color forms that appeared to be
floating in front of or behind the veil. The paintings were well received by critics thanks to the aggressive and daring
manner in which Gallagher balanced his abstract compositions in an organized, three dimensional scheme.
A 1978 graduate of Florida State,
Reilly became interested in a similar
approach when he discovered the endless possibilities of using an abstract format in
a three-dimensional space. He remembers this being unheard of at the time, and
contemporary abstraction was ripe for a shake-up. He began to produce his first Jack Reilly, Eclipse of Reason, 1993, 60x94 inches, acrylic polymers on shaped canvas.
hissing cockroaches while performing
large canvases of organized, floating
was then that he solidified his fascination
grid-like plane. The compositions had a
stripteases a couple of times a day.� It
with his new painting style, producing
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large-scale minimalist works – canvases
that were essentially backdrops for floating
Collection of the Artist.
color fields that were often placed on a
sense of structure, held together by faint
multi-colored bars – right out of college. It was a simple yet dramatic attempt to
combine geometry, color and perception in a transcendent form of organic
composition. His works were well received
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dealer Molly Barnes discovered Reilly’s work and offered him a solo exhibition at her gallery. Like Gallagher, he was
accepted a short time later in a traveling exhibition of Abstract Illusionist artists
called The Reality of Illusion that opened at the Denver Art Museum and made its way to other museums around the country. He felt like a rock star.
Reilly describes Abstract Illusionism
as a “bourgeoning hybrid style
which combined aspects of Abstract Expressionism and post-painterly
abstraction with a longing to redefine three-dimensional depth (as a formal element) in pain ting.” He and
Gallagher made their contributions to Jack Reilly, detail from Fidelity, 1993, acrylic polymers on shaped canvas. Shadows are painted to emulate dual light sources. Collection of Stuart and Arlene Marzell, Hacienda Heights, CA.
and his first Los Angeles exhibition sold
over fifty large scale works per year to
his studio into a literal factory, producing
It was in 1979 that prominent art
out immediately. He remembers turning
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keep up with the demand.
a period of art history that we would do well to revisit and celebrate, but
they are still working today, producing works that collectors continue to appreciate.
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KAREN LAMONTE Embracing Beauty WRITTEN BY DAVID AUSTIN
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Nocturne installation, white bronze, Artist’s studio in Prague
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PHOTOS: MARTIN POLAK
Reclining Nocturne 1, 2015, cast glass, 22 x 49 x 33 inches
Karen LaMonte’s work focuses on the idea of beauty. She observes that
beauty is not in the eye of the beholder, but a specific cultural expression equated with truth, goodness, and morality. It is the subject of philosophical musings from Plato and Nietzsche as well as
modern writers like Arthur Danto and David
Hickey. In it’s embrace or abnegation, the idea of beauty informs all art and architecture, eroticism and evolution.
Inspired by the beauty of night, LaMonte calls her
new body of work “Nocturnes”: dark, seductive
and sublime. They are absent female forms rising from penumbral garments, figurations of dusk.
With twilight as her muse, LaMonte builds on the
legacy of night meditations by Whistler, John Field and Frederick Chopin. Her works explore the 78 ART PatronMagazine.com
Nocturne 5, 2015, cast glass, 59 x 25 x 22 inches
TAYLOR SHERRILL
Floating World installation, cast glass
transition from known to unknown, from conscious to
unconscious, from reality to dream, and from material to
immaterial. Night is transcendent, transfiguring the personal into the universal. When the veil of daylight recedes,
the darkness of night opens the infinite space of the universe that surrounds us. Night seduces with an erotic, limitless
and unobtainable beauty. These sculptures explore evening’s sublime, the mysterious side of feminine beauty.
Sculpting with drapery, LaMonte gathers darkness around the
body using lightly tinted crystal. She envisions her technique as “drawing with dusk,” a sculptural interpretation of tenebrism. It took over two and a half years of experimentation for her to
P
rior to embarking on “Nocturnes”, LaMonte began research on Ukiyo in 2007 during a seven-month fellowship in Kyoto sponsored by the Japan-US
Friendship commission. The resulting works are a
culmination of her study of the kimono as a cultural icon
and her continuing investigation of beauty, seen here through the lens of Japanese aesthetics and material expression.
LaMonte’s vision for the project demanded broadening her
material vocabulary. She continued casting glass in the Czech
Republic, but also started sculpting ceramic in the Netherlands and Denmark, and forging bronze and iron in Italy.
“The kimono, as vessel to an unseen body”, LaMonte
achieve the right color and density of the glass.
explains,”reflects a cultural affinity for ephemerality and
the body. They glow like stars. Like celestial bodies, together
things.’ This attentiveness to impermanence precipitates a
Her “Nocturnes” in white bronze glisten like moonlight on
they become constellations. Those rendered in rusted iron
are locked into a process of transformation and imperceptible
decay, like waning daylight. They embody transition, as does twilight, positioned between the day and night.
emptiness, expressed as mono no aware, or ‘the pathos of
melancholic sense of beauty, which I had sought to capture
in my previous work. Indeed, despite the radical differences in cultures, I was struck by the kindred sensibility between the kimono and my disembodied European dresses. For
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PHOTOS: MARTIN POLAK
ABOVE Young
Maiko (front and back), 2011,
ceramic, 34 1/4 x 20 x 15 1/2 inches LEFT Odoriko,
2013, ceramic, 49 x 26 x 17 inches
me, beauty is ephemeral, it is exquisitely somber – not a
celebration of self or individuality, but an acknowledgment of one’s limits that takes comfort in the essential and eternal.” This body of work, also referred to as “Floating World”
will begin a multi-city museum exhibition tour in April 2017,
organized by her representative Austin Art Projects located in Palm Desert, California.
Karen LaMonte’s work is included in numerous collections
throughout the world, including the Chazen Museum of
Art, Corning Museum of Glass, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Smithsonian
American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery, National Gallery of Australia, De Young Museum of Art, Chrysler
Museum of Art, Spencer Museum of Art, Knoxville Museum of Art, the Toledo Museum of Art, and the Palm Springs Museum of Art, among others. 80 ART PatronMagazine.com
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DesignMeets MeetsArt
WRITTEN BY ANGELA ROMEO PHOTOS BY TERRY HASTINGS
Interior Designer Dan Hall
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The great room of Hall’s 2003 steel and glass case study style home in the Little Tuscany neighborhood of Palm Springs houses.
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“Lady of Thunder” metal sculpture by an unknown artist sits poolside of Hall’s outdoor living patio; Contemporary furniture grouping surrounds a sculptural firepit coffee table.
ome people believe that the beauty
is in the details. But Dan Hall knows that the beauty of the details is the art that drives him to create.
Established in 1990, Dan Hall Interiors is Hall’s nerve
center. It’s from here that he begins to create his designs – from custom furniture and cabinetry to the art that
graces the walls of his clients’ homes. “I was fortunate to
have wonderful mentors in my career,” he recalls. “Steve
Chase, who had trained with Arthur Elrod, was my most important one. I began as a Delivery and Art Installation
Technician, but with time I moved on to the design team. What I noticed about Steve, besides his amazing talent,
was his attention to every detail. From the initial drawing to the finished project, Steve knew every nuance. I took that with me when I left to start my own firm.”
Following in the footsteps of legendary interior
designers is no small feat. Known for their fresh
contemporary interiors, both Elrod and Chase had a
lasting impact on the Palm Springs landscape. Both had a 86 ART PatronMagazine.com
A 40 foot wall of glass opens up to outdoor living, bringing the outdoors into the interior great room.
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rich sense of design and knew how to create an environment that was right for their clients.
“Designers cannot impress all of their own wishes onto every
project,” Hall explains. “I approach each one as just that – its
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own project. When designing an interior, I need to take into
account not just the architecture and the physical location but
also the personalities. These are homes, not museums, and not model homes. They are homes that may be uniquely beautiful
OPPOSITE
Custom grey
washed kitchen cabinetry designed by Hall was installed when the house was purchased in 2015. Vintage Brno chairs surround a glass dining table with glass centerpiece bowl by Tom Bloyd; Painting” “Isadora” by French artist Pierre Marie Brisson hangs above a modernist buffet table. LEFT “The Primative figure” by Miami artist Jamali and a favorite Photograph: “Fruitloops” by Don Saxton, hang in Hall’s “work station” alcove.
but are alive because of the people who inhabit those spaces.”
my clients live in the outdoors. The desert, for example, offers
of his knowledge and love of landscape design. “The exterior is
spring seasons encourage us to move outdoors. By seamlessly
Because a home is more than its interior walls, Hall makes use
as much a part of the whole as the interior,” he says. “Many of
many possibilities for life outdoors. The fall and winter and
blending the interior and exterior, the living space is that much
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A large
acrylic canvas Patchwork Landscape painted by Hall, hangs in his guest Bedroom; OPPOSITE
Having
remodeled his clients Alexander home in Palm Springs several years earlier, Hall recently designed, supervised construction, and furnished this 1000 sq. ft Pool Pavilion.
more integrated into the lifestyle of the inhabitants.�
and Hawaii. “I have no fixed style but do enjoy working on the
homes in the Desert area. He has also worked in Los Angeles,
projects are modernist. Some are more traditional, while others
Hall has overseen design projects involving many of the
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modernist homes of this area and beyond. But not all my design are a blend of styles, or what I call Soft Contemporary.
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“I enjoy being involved from the beginning,” Hall continues.
“I am often called into a project early on in the architectural
stages of design, to help clients develop, visualize and create
their plans. It is important that all the elements come together.
That can only happen when there is an open dialogue between all the parties.
“In the past I have had the opportunity to work with some
wonderful clients like Jim and Jackie Lee Houston. We spent
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Palmas area of Palm Springs. Their home is a magnificent example of collaboration
between client and designer. I am grateful for the opportunity to have worked on that project.”
The chance to work with the same
clients multiple times is also very
important to Hall. “When clients entrust several different projects with me, it is humbling. To know that we, the client and I, have created a bond is unique
and special. I cannot underscore how
meaningful that relationship is to me. I have had the great fortune to work on
projects through the generations – parents and now their children. There is no better feeling than to know that my work is not
only respected but has become part of the family fabric. What could be better? “I have great respect for historic
design and architecture, and have always enjoyed blending the old with the new to
create a modern interpretation of a classic, be it mid-century modern, California
Spanish, Tuscan, or elegantly traditional.” Yet Hall does not want to work back in
time. “Modernism was new at one time,
but now it is a style. I love working within that style, but it is up to me to bring it into the true contemporary – the now.”
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stand out. It is the attention to the details
– the clients’ needs and desires as well as
their possessions. “Often my clients have extensive art collections,” the designer
explains. “It is important to respect that investment.
“On the other hand,” Hall continues,
“if the clients are not collectors or
their tastes have changed, I can work
with that too. I enjoy assisting them in
selecting and purchasing new art pieces
for their home.” Hall often achieves this through local galleries, art fairs, auction houses, or with the help of professional art consultants such as Deborah Page
Projects. “On several occasions I have
even created art for my clients. It is very
satisfying to see my artist side recognized. I think of myself as an artist who happens to have a good sense of design. Painting has been a passion since my youth, and
several of my large abstract acrylics hang in my clients’ homes.”
But while attention to detail is important,
it is Hall’s ability to create an atmosphere of livable style and elegance that is most
impressive. The hand of the artist and the eye of the designer have melded quite well into the soul of Dan Hall. For more information visit danhallinteriors.com.
A contemporary Balinese stone carving welcomes guest to Hall’s front entry.
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