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The Desert X biennial staging site-specific, sometimes monumental artworks across the Coachella Valley announced its project lineup this week, and a standout among the 13 artists is Judy Chicago.
The 81-year-old
dating to
the 1950s,
has long been injecting the feminine into male-dominated land art. Colored smoke in her fireworks pieces, which she’s been producing since the late 1960s, is meant to soften or “feminize” the surrounding landscape. Her new work for Desert X, which opens March 12, is very much an extension of this.
Chicago will create one of her smoke sculptures for the exhibition “Living Smoke: A Tribute to the Living Desert.” The ephemeral work is a collaboration with Chicago’s longtime partner on “pyrotechnic performances,” Chris Souza of Pyro Spectaculars. It will take place one time only, on April 9, but it will be livestreamed on social media. As it swirls and rises over 1,200 acres in the foothills of Eisenhower Mountain at the Living D
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A large maze structure by Mexico-based artist Eduardo Sarabia. A sculptural wall created by Saudi Arabia artist Zahrah Alghamdi that connects the Southern California landscape to other deserts around the world. A smoke sculpture by American feminist artist Judy Chicago.
These are some of the artworks you ll see across the Coachella Valley as part of the outdoor biennial art exhibition Desert X when it returns March 12 to May 16.
The exhibition, which offers digital and in-person opportunities to view work across 40 miles of the desert, is being curated by Artistic Director Neville Wakefield and co-curator César García-Alvarez.
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Chevron announced a $100,000 donation to Friends of the Living Desert, a non-profit organization founded in 1982 to provide supplemental financial assistance and volunteer support to Living Desert Zoo & Gardens State Park in Carlsbad.
The state park opened in 1971 and is managed by the State Parks Division (SPD) of the New Mexico Energy, Minerals & Natural Resources Department (EMNRD).
According to a news release from Friends of the Living Desert, the funds would be used to make energy efficiency upgrades to the park’s visitor center, including potential improvements to the center’s rooftop solar power system. The donation would also support Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) upgrades and repairs to the park’s 1.3 mile pathway.
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PALM DESERT, CA Spring is near, according to The Living Desert s Mojave Maxine.
The 43-year-old desert tortoise is the ultimate season predictor. She emerged from brumation (reptilian hibernation) at 10:23 a.m. Monday, and it was a clear sign, zoo officials said, that spring is just around the corner. The temperatures this January have been extremely warm in the upper 80s, so it s not surprising that Maxine predicts an early spring, said Dr. James Danoff-Burg, Director of Conservation Engagement. Interestingly, this marks the 8th year in a row that she has debuted several days earlier than the previous year. This continuing trend seems to reflect a warming climate.