Artists have been drawn to the California desert to experience and depict its distinctive light. Painters who worked in the impressionist and post-impressionist styles were pioneers, followed by the modernists, who represented the light more symbolically, and then by the postwar and contemporary artists. They approached the subject with nontraditional materials, such as plastics, resins, lights, and mirrors.
Steven Biller, longtime editor-in-chief of Palm Springs Life and a board member of Desert X, writes and lectures about California artists. Biller’s lecture, “Art and Light,” will cover art from the turn-of-the-century landscape painters to the light and space conceptual artists at the Old Schoolhouse in Twentynine Palms. This talk surveys the artists and their techniques for capturing the desert light. Join Steven Biller at the Old Schoolhouse for this in-person lecture at the Twentynine Palms Historical Society, 6760 National Park Drive, on Friday, May 13, at 7 p.m. Admission is $5 at the door.
