The collective art exhibition “Desert + Coast: Seven Elder Aboriginal Painters” displays and challenges women’s contributions to Indigenous art. The paintings depict Aboriginal tradition, narration and community, and represent the details of the land. The gallery showing is currently on display at Salon 94 right next to the Guggenheim Museum until Feb. 24..
The artist whose works have been making waves in Europe will test a local market that has been reluctant to spend as much on Aboriginal art as international collectors.
While the late Indigenous artist Sally Gabori is being feted in the top echelons of Paris, a tragic subplot of theft and deception swirls in the background.