Desert Perspectives Exhibit at SMoCA

Desert Perspectives is a yearlong, collection-centered exhibition that brings together a multigenerational group of artists working in—or regionally connected to—the Southwest whose practices engage deeply with the desert, not only as a physical landscape but as a layered site of ecological, cultural, historical, and political significance.

Desert Perspectives features loans from David Emitt Adams, Julie Anand, Susanna Battin, Daniel Friedman, Joshua Haunschild, Jacob Meders, Rebecca Padilla, Damon Sauer, Jen Urso, Karima Walker, and Hyewon Yoon, alongside collection works.

I will be sharing findings from my 2 years+ project that takes place in my front yard titled Leaving Land to Itself. This piece has been a long investigation into the desert land, ecological succession, plant materials, resilience, my body in the landscape and how things that are devalued still manage to persist and even thrive.