Plush, long hands armed with soft-stuffed guns hang from the windows, barely camouflaged by the artificial overgrowth invading the sculpture. An absurd array oftangled limbs of two mysterious characters wearing long hats sprawl out of the car and onto the site’s pristine, manicured grounds. Visitors encounter a dated car that has screeched to a halt in Sunnylands. "A lace-like steel sculpture of a to-scale blue whale heart issubmerged in a pool pumped full of Salton-Sea water, but rather than stand as a harbinger ofdeath, the sculpture metabolizes and creates energy and clean water that it deposits back intothe atmosphere, fueling the potential for future life across the run of the exhibition and visuallytransforming itself in the process." Desert XĪt Sunnylands Center & Gardens in Rancho Mirage, viewers can experience Amar a Dios en Tierra de Indios, Es Oficio Maternal by Paloma Contreras Lomas. In Palm Springs, artist Lauren Bon displays The Smallest Sea with the Largest Heart. The New-York based artist's work is now found at San Gorgonio Street and Bubbling Wells Road in Desert Hot Springs. The sculpture celebrates flexibility of the divine feminine spirit and form and the fluidity of identity in contemporary America." Tschabalala Self's work is on display in Desert Hot Springs. " Pioneer similarly represents the lost, expelled and forgotten Indigenous, Native and African women whose bodies and labor allowed for American expansion and growth, while also standing as a beacon of resilience for their descendants-a visual representation of their birthright and place within the American landscape. " Pioneer is a monument built in homage to the collective foremothers of contemporary America," reads the installation description provided by Desert X. Tschabalala Self has dedicated work to exploring "the emotional, physical and psychological impact of the Black female body as icon and is primarily devoted to examining the intersectionality of race, gender, and sexuality." " Liquid A Place is part of an ongoing series that started from the premise that we are the water in the room, inviting viewers to consider their bodily interconnection with rivers and oceans that surround us."Ĭhimera by Héctor Zamora "is a performative action in collaboration with street vendors who are ubiquitous in the Coachella Valley but often invisible in the landscape." It is viewable at Homme Adams Park in Palm Desert. New York-based artist Torkwase Dyson created Liquid A Place. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center in Palm Springs. Gerald Clarke's work is displayed at the James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center, 480 W. Achama! Gerald Clarke, Desert X 2023 artistĬlarke's work is displayed at the James O. I am not simply acontemporary artist that happens to be Indian. I’m proud and humbled to contribute to the Indigenous Intellectual Tradition. Hemet-based Cahuilla artist Gerald Clarke shared in his artist statement, "While my work may not appear 'traditional,' it is part of a continuation of creative responses to the world that the Cahuilla have exercised since ancient times."Īs you view my work, I ask that you do not simply compare or contrast it to “traditional Native American art,” but that you understand my work exists within a spectrum of Indigenous expression that is simultaneously ancient and contemporary. For Desert X, they find this metaphor in salt." Immersive installation Hylozoic-Desires is in Desert Hot Springs as part of Desert X 2023. Descriptions of the artwork explain "h/d uses metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interferences, entanglements, deep voids, debris, delays, alienation, distance and intimacy.
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