The 29 Palms Art Gallery will hold a socially distanced opening art reception tonight. Ernest Figueroa tells us more about the featured artists…
The 29 Palms Art Gallery will hold an opening reception Saturday, September 5, for its new show. The show will feature paintings by Susan Kearns, called “Expressionism Off the Grid”; paintings on metal by Anna Stump; and art work by 29 Palms Art Gallery members. The opening reception is set for 5 to 7 p.m. Saturday. The show runs through September 27. The gallery is open 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday through Sunday. The art gallery is located at 74055 Cottonwood Drive in Twentynine Palms.
Susan Kearns
Expressionism Off The Grid
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Susan lives in an off grid, solar powered cabin in Landers with her husband, Pat Kearns, who is a singer-songwriter and recording engineer. Her textural oil and latex paintings are inspired by desert landscapes and animals. She paints on the floor while Pat mixes songs a few feet away at a table in the corner of their cabin, or outdoors in their open air desert “studio”.
Susan is inspired by feelings and images in her head that arise from listening to music. If you bring your eye close to her paintings, you can see the emotion in the surface texture of the paint. Much like a song, the full story comes together as you take a step back to view the entire scene, rather than focusing on one of the individual instruments.
Anna Stump
Desert Metal
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Stump’s “Desert Metal Series” developed from her experiences cleaning up a bone yard and trash dump in Twentynine Palms. In rehabilitating her property, she reuses as much material as possible in her art practice, including piles of metal and tools aged by the harsh climate. She explores themes of skyscapes, desert wildlife, jackrabbit homesteads, and military surveillance, using compositions reminiscent of Christian ascensions. Her background growing up on the US/Mexico Border, another militarized space, has affected how she interacts with her new desert home.
Artists Guild Members
Group Show
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Our valued Guild Member Artists will present a group exhibition Pickering Room as representation of Guild Member Artists going back to founders, John Hilton and Kirk Martin through to today’s inspiring artists.
