DESERT X 2017

ARTISTIC DIRECTOR

Desert X is a site-specific show which first took place in the spring of 2017. Artists from different parts of the world were invited to make work that responds to the unique conditions of Palm Springs and the surrounding Coachella Valley. The desert of Desert X is a canvas upon which contemporary artists - like the writers, architects, musicians and other before them – were invited to project their vision and to create of the extraordinary natural and social history around them objects and experiences that reflect upon the matchless spectacle of the geologic epic, the radical abstraction of the surroundings and the singular incursions of man into the seemingly barren landscape. Unique in that it takes the landscape itself as its exhibition space, Desert X offers the opportunity to experience the familiar and the unknown through the eyes of others. If the desert is indeed God without man, then Desert X is art without constraint.