![]() Tahquitz Canyon Way (Between Sunrise Way and Civic Drive), Palm Springs Palm Canyon Drive, Vivian Suter has created a series of large, unstretched abstract paintings based on images of the Greater Palm Springs landscape that she found on the internet to explore “the way the landscape exists and circulates in two dimensions.” CHRISTOPHER MYERS, The Art of Taming Horses Courtesy the artist and Desert X.Ī few blocks south, in a modernist building located at 333 S. Vivian Suter, Tamanrassetĭesert X installation view of Vivian Suter, Tamanrasset. It acknowledges the invisibility and invites the community to see these people, hear their voices and provide them with safe spaces to flourish. Palm Canyon Drive), Felipe Baeza is installing a mural (check for the opening date) to recognize the Coachella Valley’s queer communities of color that are erased from local histories, particularly the labor movement and the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Felipe Baeza, Finding Home in My Own Flesh Nearby, north of the Palm Springs Visitors Center at Tramway Road, Nicholas Galanin, a Native American artist from Sitka, Alaska, presents the dramatic Never Forget, mimicking the famous Hollywood sign but with the words “Indian Land,” addressing the idea of monuments and what they memorialize. North of the Palm Springs Visitors Center at Tramway Road ![]() Nicholas Galanin, Never Forgetĭesert X installation view of Nicholas Galanin, Never Forge t. The title, The Wishing Well, refers to the standing wells that many people around the world trek to every day to access water. The work might also hint at the coming water crisis. ![]() Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center to behold Serge Attukwei Clottey’s monumental cube structures made from yellow plastic Kufuor gallons, which are used in his native Ghana to move water from their sources to people’s homes. ![]() Serge Attukwei Clottey, The Wishing Wellĭesert X installation view of Serge Attukwei Clottey, The Wishing Well. Because You Know Ultimately We Will Band A Militia promotes social justice causes and confronts white stereotypes and complicity within racist narratives that shape our roles within society. Then, head south into Palm Springs, via Gene Autry Trail, to see Xaviera Simmons’ installation on a succession of billboards. Gene Autry Trail (Between Via Escuela and Interstate 10), Palm Springs Xaviera Simmons, Because You Know Ultimately We Will Band A Militia In Sky Valley (71690 Channel Run Road), Alicja Kwade explores the ideas of space, relativity and time with her sculpture ParaPivot, which the curators describe as “at once an atomic model and geological proposition.” Its illusion of instability is a nod to current global issues. Alicja Kwade, ParaPivot (sempiternal clouds) Located on Pierson Boulevard between Foxdale Drive and Miracle Hill Road, What Lies Behind the Walls reads like a geological extrusion, revealing strata of time and rapid development. Start north of Interstate 10 in Desert Hot Springs, with Zahrah Alghamdi’s architectural monument to memory and history. Pierson Boulevard (Between Foxdale Drive and Miracle Hill Road), Desert Hot Springs Zahrah Alghamdi, What Lies Behind the Wallsĭesert X installation view of Zahrah Alghamdi, What Lies Behind the Walls. Then, they responded with creative, innovative and poignant artworks. They visited Greater Palm Springs, immersed themselves in local lore and culture and considered the desert through the filters of gender, race, migration, Indigenous territories and histories, and environmental justice. The sprawling outdoor exhibition of site-specific art is from March 12 through May 16, 2021, you can see 13 eye-popping and thoughtful installations by artists from around the world. Now, get out and see Desert X for yourself. ![]() You’ve seen the pictures and heard the buzz. ![]()
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