Gerald Clarke: Falling Rock - Conversation and Book Launch
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February 11, 5:00pm |
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February 11, 5:00pm |
Speakers:
Gerald Clarke, Artist
Ashley Holland, Curator at Art Bridges in Bentonville, Arkansas and scholar
Christine Giles, Senior Curator at Palm Springs Art Museum
Rochelle Steiner, Chief Curator & Director of Public Programs and Education at the Palm Springs Art Museum
To celebrate the release of the publication Gerald Clarke: Falling Rock, join us for a virtual book launch and conversation with artist Gerald Clarke; curator and contributing scholar Ashley Holland; and Palm Springs Art Museum Senior Curator Christine Giles. TThis new book is co-published by Palm Springs Art Museum and Hirmer Verlag on the occasion of the survey exhibition that brings together three decades of Gerald's work. The conversation will include images of the exhibition Gerald Clarke: Falling Rock and will be moderated by Palm Springs Art Museum Chief Curator & Director of Public Programs and Education Rochelle Steiner.
This is the first monograph published on this inventive contemporary Native American artist who utilizes wit and humor to expose historical and present-day injustices found in critical social, economic, and environmental issues facing our world. The virtual event will include a discussion of Clarke’s practice that spans sculpture, painting, and installation, and draws inspiration from histories of Pop art, conceptualism, and politically engaged work produced by both Native and non-Native artists.
ABOUT GERALD CLARKE
Gerald Clarke is a contemporary Cahuilla artist who lives and works in Anza, California. An enrolled member of the Cahuilla Band of Indians, Clarke has served as Vice-Chairman on the Cahuilla Tribal Council and as the Southern California Representative to the California Association of Tribal Governments. He received his MA (1992) and MFA (1994) in studio arts with an emphasis in painting and sculpture from Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, Texas. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and is included in several prominent museum collections, including the Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis; The Heard Museum, Phoenix; and Palm Springs Art Museum. Clarke is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside.
ABOUT ASHLEY HOLLAND
Ashley Holland, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, is a scholar and curator and currently serves as Curator for the Art Bridges Foundation in Bentonville, Arkansas. She is the former Assistant Curator of Native Art at the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis, where she worked from 2007 to 2016. She is a doctoral candidate in art history at the University of Oklahoma, Norman. Her dissertation focuses on issues of identity, cultural memory, and diaspora in Cherokee contemporary art.
ABOUT CHRISTINE GILES
Christine Giles is Senior Curator at Palm Springs Art Museum, where she has worked since 1996. In addition to overseeing the Stephen H. Willard Photography Collection & Archive and the growth and development of the collections, Giles has curated over thirty special exhibitions, including Journey Through the Desert–The Road Less Traveled (2018), A Grand Adventure: American Art of the West (2014), Woven Together: Art and Design in Southwest Indian Textiles (2012), Night and Day: The Paintings of Lockwood de Forest (2011), and Colors of the West: The Paintings of Birger Sandzén (2010). Giles holds a BA and MA in art history, with an emphasis in American art, from the University of California, Davis.
ABOUT ROCHELLE STEINER
Rochelle Steiner is the Chief Curator & Director of Public Programs and Education at the Palm Springs Art Museum. Previously, Steiner served as Associate Director & Chief Curator at the Vancouver Art Gallery, was a tenured professor and the Dean of the Roski School of Art & Design at University of Southern California, Director of the Public Art Fund in New York, and Chief Curator at Serpentine Gallery in London.
Exhibition Catalogue
This publication is a survey of three decades of work by contemporary Native American artist Gerald Clarke (Cahuilla). Utilising wit and humour to expose historical and present-day injustice, Clarke brings a decolonial perspective to urgent cultural and political issues facing our world.
