February 24, 2016 This week in Gay Palm Springs

AdamsArtExpose’
Palm Springs Modernism And Art Fair week
During Valentine weekend a major international
art and design event was taking place
in Palm Springs. Modernism Week and
the Palm Springs Art Fair attract galleries,
collectors, art, design, and architectural
enthusiasts from all over the United States
and foreign countries.
Modernism Week is in it’s tenth year as a
major event in Palm Springs. This year the
epicenter, or CAMP, for directing the activities
of the event, was located in the former
Alley imports building on South Palm
Canyon. Modernism events included, tours
of mid century buildings and homes, talks
by architectural icons, displays,
of home furnishings, including, furniture,
appliances, decorative accessories and art.
Included this year was the Christopher
Kennedy Show House. The house, located
off of South Palm Canyon, was a project
directed by Christopher Kennedy. Kennedy
is a popular designer working in New York,
Los Angeles, and Palm Springs. This project
was unique and involved several designers.
Each designer was assigned a room in
the house. The challenge was to design the
room utilizing their individual creativity,
but to correlate to the overall inclusive design
arrangement of the entire house.
Palm Springs Convention Center. This
year there were galleries featuring artist
from throughout the United States, and
including, London, the UK, Venezuela, and
Argentina.
The art was a broad range of media, including
2 and 3 dimensional works. One
interesting, multidimensional, display
was located in the lobby of the convention
center. It was titled “Suspended Boulder”,
and was the creation of Stephen Webster.
We will have a feature article on Stephen
in a later issue. The variety of contrasting
art styles featured by the various galleries,
is displayed in the examples of the two
photos included in this article. An acrylic
painting by Sam Francis, untitled, provided
by the Nathan Novak Gallery, is an
example of mid century abstraction. The
other example is a graphite drawing, titled,
“Talons”, by Kerry Brooks, shown by Arcadia
Contemporary Gallery, as an example
of hyper-realism almost more realistic than
a photograph.
We are fortunate to live in Palm Springs
where art, architecture and creativity are all
around us. If you missed these events this
year, plan for next to have an adventure in
creativity and culture. If you missed these
events this year, plan for next to have an adventure
in creativity and cultureQuestions,
Comments, Suggestions, Please contact me
at adamsartexpose@gmail.com
The Palm Springs Art Fair was held adjacent
to the Modernist Displays at the
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