CURRENT
Current Exhibitions
Insights into Architecture
05/25/13 – 10/06/13 - Marks Graphics Center And Jorgensen Gallery
Palm Springs Art Museum
This exhibition is inspired by Ezra Stoller (1915-2004), a student of both architecture and industrial design, who began his career as a photographer in the late 1930s. His 1939 World's Fair, Finnish Pavilion, Queens, New York, designed by Alvar Aalto, launched his career and his recognition as an acute observer of space and form. His photographs of work by architects Frank Lloyd Wright, Eero Saarinen, Louis Kahn, and Marcel Breuer demonstrate his finely tuned sensitivity to light and shadow, translucency and solid form. Each of Stoller's photographs is a study of the architect's expression of modern architecture, as crisp as the buildings themselves.
Out of the Fire: Mesoamerican and Pueblo Ceramics
04/12/13 – 04/19/14
Palm Springs Art Museum
Out of the Fire features a selection of ceramics from the museum?s permanent collection and loans from the private collection of Jan and Mark Hilbert. The works represents more than 2000 years of ceramic tradition from ancient Mesoamerican to the Pueblo Indians of the North American Southwest. Made for a variety of purposes from utilitarian to sacred practices, ceramics is one of the most enduring artistic traditions of the Americas. Modeled by hand from pliable clay material and transformed by fire into hardened vessels or figures, these objects represent a long history that expresses both cultural identity and values individual creativity.
Rauschenberg at Gemini
03/16/13 – 07/28/13 - Annenberg Wing
Palm Springs Art Museum
From 1967 through 2001, Robert Rauschenberg produced more than 250 different prints at Gemini G.E.L. Rauschenberg transformed what a print multiple was, not only in scale, but in how variable one print in a single edition could be from another; in how many physical dimensions it could have; in how many media a single multiple could involve; and in how the viewer could interact with the multiple and make it different. No other artist has pushed the boundaries of printmaking as much as Rauschenberg.
Roger Ballen Photography
03/16/13 – 07/28/13 - New Media Gallery
Palm Springs Art Museum
Originally born and raised in New York City, Roger Ballen has lived in South Africa since receiving his Ph.D. in Mineral Economics in 1981. Initially his work as a geologist took him to the country's rural communities. Fascinated by the uncertain and precarious conditions he found, he began photographing people in small towns at the margins of society. Ballen documented these residents through a series of unsettling portraits that reveal the human condition even as his subjects exhibit idiosyncratic manners and habits.
Contemporary Glass 2012 / 2013
11/17/12 – 11/03/13 - Denney Western American Art Wing
Palm Springs Art Museum
This exhibition brings together noted national and international artists who demonstrate the range and diversity of glass techniques and styles. Glass has special aesthetic properties that make it an ideal material that can be shaped in countless ways, combined with other materials, and made into sculptures or installations. Light reveals the optical richness of color in glass while emphasizing the volumetric sensuousness of form.
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The Palm Springs Art Museum has two locations in the Coachella Valley: The flagship building is located in downtown Palm Springs and features compelling art exhibitions and a vast permanent collection, all on view in 150,000 square feet, architecturally significant building. The Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert is an 8,400 square foot, Silver LEED-certified building named The Galen that presents changing exhibitions and collections. It is surrounded by the four-acre Faye Sarkowsky Sculpture Garden that features more than 10 significant sculpture works. Both museum locations are open to the public with free admission every Thursday evening from 4-8 p.m. and the Palm Springs facility offers free admission and programming the second Sunday of each month.