

New York-based artist Torkwase Dyson created Liquid A Place. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center in Palm Springs. Gerald Clarke's work is displayed at the James O. Jessie Desert Highland Unity Center, 480 W. Achama! Gerald Clarke, Desert X 2023 artistĬlarke's work is displayed at the James O. I am not simply acontemporary artist that happens to be Indian. I’m proud and humbled to contribute to the Indigenous Intellectual Tradition. Hemet-based Cahuilla artist Gerald Clarke shared in his artist statement, "While my work may not appear 'traditional,' it is part of a continuation of creative responses to the world that the Cahuilla have exercised since ancient times."Īs you view my work, I ask that you do not simply compare or contrast it to “traditional Native American art,” but that you understand my work exists within a spectrum of Indigenous expression that is simultaneously ancient and contemporary. For Desert X, they find this metaphor in salt." Immersive installation Hylozoic-Desires is in Desert Hot Springs as part of Desert X 2023. Descriptions of the artwork explain "h/d uses metaphors from outer space and the natural environment to construct imaginary cosmologies of interferences, entanglements, deep voids, debris, delays, alienation, distance and intimacy.
