UPCOMING
Upcoming Exhibitions
Insights on 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.
Across Dimensions: Graphics and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection
06/22/13 – 10/27/13
Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert
Artists often work with different kinds of media, even though they may be better known primarily for one mode of expression. Taking the museum's installation of permanent collection sculpture in the Faye Sarkowsky Sculpture Garden as a point of departure, this exhibition considers the creative drive to work in a variety of formats
Made in the USA -- from the Abstract Expressionists to the Color - field Painters
06/29/13 – 09/29/13 - Annenberg Wing
Palm Springs Art Museum
This exhibition, drawn from the museum's permanent collection, contrasts the style of Abstract Expressionists (a style developed after 1945 by a group of New York artists working in an abstract style) with Color-field painting, which followed in the mid-1950s as an extension of Abstract Expressionism.
Picasso and Master Impressionists
06/29/13 – 09/01/13 - Annenberg Wing
Palm Springs Art Museum
Again this summer, the museum is privileged to present a select group of outstanding Impressionist paintings that offer visitors a glimpse of the brilliant artistic experimentation that roiled the established art world from the late 1880s through the turn of the 20th century. Returning are Impressionist works by Edouard Manet, Vincent Van Gogh, and Henri Matisse. Manet was highly skilled in the translation of the qualities of light and atmosphere into pigment and canvas while Matisse demonstrated his dynamic foray into color and modernist aesthetics. Van Gogh's expressive works reveal his masterful manipulation of materials in the service of emotion.
George Catlin's American Buffalo
10/01/13 – 12/29/13 - McCallum Wing
Palm Springs Art Museum
George Catlin's American Buffalo exhibits forty paintings dating from 1832 to 1948 from the artist's original "Indian Gallery." The exhibition includes eleven full-length portraits of Plains Indians and twenty-nine paintings of his observation of buffalo and their integration into all aspects of Native American life. These paintings are from the permanent collection of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Richard Diebenkorn The Berkeley Years, 1953 1966
10/26/13 – 02/16/14 - Annenberg Wing
Palm Springs Art Museum
Richard Diebenkorn achieved national and international acclaim during his lifetime and is considered one of California's finest 20th century artists. His work has been the subject of several retrospective exhibitions, numerous smaller exhibitions, and many articles and critical reviews. This exhibition will be the first to examine the productive period between 1953 to 1966 while Diebenkorn and his family lived in Berkeley, California. It was a remarkable period of exploration and innovation in his art marked by vivid abstract landscapes characterizing the rich, natural conditions of the Bay Area, followed by a sudden shift to a representational style that played a leading role in the Bay Area Figurative Movement, which finally gave way again to abstraction after the artist's move to southern California in 1966.
Personalities Fantasy and Identity in Photography and New Media
11/02/13 – 01/31/14
Palm Springs Art Museum in Palm Desert
Using the diverse aesthetic traditions of portraiture as points of departure, this exhibition explores the representational power of photography from its origins in the nineteenth century to its digital forms in the present. Drawing from the museum's permanent collection as well as from loans, Personalities emphasizes the unique characteristics of the photographic image to shape both the identity of a photographed sitter and a viewer's sense of a subject's persona. This exhibition examines how the careful art of the portrait can dive deep into an individual's soul, but can also be manipulated to create personalities that exist beyond the realms of the real.
75th Anniversary Gifts
01/25/14 – 05/25/14 - McCallum Wing
Palm Springs Art Museum
Reflecting all the major areas of the art collection, this exhibition features gifts and promised gifts in honor of the museum's 75th Anniversary. Following Donna MacMillan's lead gift of a commissioned sculpture by contemporary Chinese artist Zhan Wang for the entrance to the building, donors have committed significant works that fill important gaps in the collection and elevate its overall quality.
Countemporary Art Council Purchase Retrospective
03/08/14 – 06/15/14 - Annenberg Wing
Palm Springs Art Museum
The Contemporary Art Council Purchase Retrospective includes art works purchased by the Palm Springs Art Museum with funds provided by the Contemporary Art Council and other contributors from 1984 through 2012. The acquisitions were created by contemporary artists who worked in California or were influenced by spending some time in California during their artistic careers. The artworks are multi-faceted, including paintings, works on paper, sculpture, ceramics, and photography.
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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.