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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.
Rendering for Living Smoke: A Tribute to the Living Desert by Desert X 2021 artist Judy Chicago Courtesy of the artist and Desert X
After an opening delayed from February to March, Desert X (12 March-26 May) has announced the artists selected for the third edition of their outdoor art exhibition in California’s Coachella Valley. Thirteen artists from eight countries with four based in New York and only one from Southern California will have work featured in what could be the first major public art event in the region since the Covid-19 shutdown last year.
“The reach of this edition is wider and the depth greater,” says Desert X’s artistic direc
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