The second Saturday Joshua Tree Art Crawl is happening tonight in Joshua Tree, with participating gallery’s opening nights of their artist’s new shows for April.
La Matadora presents American $pring, featuring the art of Casey Niccoli and Carlos Ramirez. Opening reception from 6:00 to 9:00 p.m., with live music from Casey’s daughter, Poppy Jean Crawford.
Casey Niccoli is an award-winning, self-taught multimedia artist, filmmaker, and creative visionary known for shaping the alternative music and art scenes of the late 1980s and early 1990s. Niccoli made her mark as album cover artist, music video director and key collaborator with Jane’s Addiction, including the iconic Been Caught Stealing video, which won the MTV Video Music Award for Best Alternative Video in 1991. Niccoli also directed the cult classic Gift (1993), a semi-autobiographical feature-length film exploring love, addiction, and art. Fusing raw emotional honesty with experimental storytelling, her work blends music and film into an immersive artistic experience. Beyond filmmaking, she has built an extensive career as a visual artist, working in collage, photography, mixed media, and installations. Her work explores themes of femininity, redemption, counterculture, individuality, and the human condition.
Carlos Ramirez has been blazing a trail with his detail drenched mixed media works that echo his Mexican American heritage rooted in California pop culture. Ramirez’s paintings, collages and three-dimensional sculptures contain elements influenced by graffiti, Mexican street murals, traditional revolutionary posters, sign painting, prison art, and tattoos.
Artist Martha Rich returns to Hey There Projects gallery with her eye-popping array of painted wood and steel cut-out pieces. The show’s opening reception is Saturday from 6:00-9:00 p.m. but get a sneak peek in the morning starting at 9:00 a.m.
Coyote Little Gallery continues their group show featuring all local female artists, with many pieces priced under $200. Open from 6:00-9:00 p.m.
