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Local artist Shahram Farshadfar has announced he will be occupying a new space in the Cherokee Arts District in Palm Springs with the poignant name of Galerie Mystere. He admits the space will be a forum for the art that he loves to share with the community, as well as a place where things organically happen and events spontaneously occur! Looking forward to seeing what brews there.
Fine artist and teacher, Peggy Vermeer, has been part of the Palm Springs Art Scene for thirty years. Peggy has been working for the museum as a staff member or a volunteer since the early 1970s. She has a graduate degree in art and she is a remarkable and celebrated artist who has won numerous awards. Her amazing assemblages, altered-books, paintings and collages will be exhibited in an one-woman show called, Tattered And Torn. The studio reception will be on Sunday, December 7, from 3 to 6. p.m. at Claire’s Underground Garden. Free refreshments will be served. The open studio is a smoke-free, “green” environment. Call for location and information: Lee Balan at 760-325-1647 or www.intriguism.com (events page)
(Palm Desert, CA)—November 13, 2008—On Sunday, November 30, 2008, noted art historian Ann Dumas will present the lecture “Impressionism: New Art For Old” at Heather James Fine Art in Palm Desert. The lecture will take place at 12 noon and the public is invited to attend for free. Refreshments will be served. Space is limited to 50 seats so reservations are encouraged. Interested parties may RSVP to kimberly@heatherjames.com or by calling 760.346.8926
The lecture will feature a powerpoint presentation by Dumas including famous artworks that will be hanging in the gallery for guests to view. Dumas will remain in the gallery after the lecture to discuss pertinent artworks with any interested guests.
ABOUT ANN DUMAS:
Ann Dumas is an independent art historian and curator attached to the Royal Academy of Arts in London.
Ann completed her graduate work in art history at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London, where she wrote her doctoral thesis on The Private Collection of Edgar Degas. In the early 1980s she worked as a Hilla von Rebay research fellow at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York where she was engaged on a scholarly catalogue of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice. This was followed by six years as Associate Curator of European Painting at the Brooklyn Museum of Art where she curated a number of exhibitions including Courbet Reconsidered. Since returning to London in 1994, she has curated several major international exhibitions including The Private Collection of Edgar Degas at the National Gallery, London and Metropolitan Museum, New York, in 1997, 1900: Art at the Crossroads for the Royal Academy of Arts, London and the Guggenheim Museum, New York, in 2000, Matisse his Art and his Textiles for the Royal Academy, London and the Metropolitan Museum, New York in 2005, Cézanne to Picasso: Ambroise Vollard, Patron of the Avant-Garde, for the Metropolitan Museum, New York, the Art Institute of Chicago and the Musée d’Orsay, Paris, 2006-2007. Most recently, she curated Inspiring Impressionism: the Impressionists and the Art of the Past, which opened at the High Museum, Atlanta in October 2007 and travelled to the Denver Art Museum and the Seattle Art Museum in 2008, and From Russia fro the Royal Academy of Arts, London. She is currently working on an exhibition about Van Gogh and his letters to be shown at the Royal Academy, London, in 2010.
Ann Dumas is also a consultant to the Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio and to private collectors.
Heather James Fine Art is located at 45-188 Portola Avenue in Palm Desert and will feature a wide array of art ranging from Impressionist and Modern art to Post-War and Contemporary, American, Latin American, Old Master, Photography, and Design. The new fine art gallery is an expansion and evolution of the current Heather James Art and Antiquities, which continues to operate in the El Paseo location and to provide clients with the finest in cultural antiquities and ethnographic art from throughout the world.
Heather James Fine Art’s Inaugural Exhibition will take place Saturday, November 29th from 6-9 P.M. For more information or to RSVP, please call Kimberly Nichols at 760.346.8926 or email kimberly@heatherjames.com
Palm Springs Artist Izayah Jeffrey is currently at work on a photography series showcasing successful artists and their own personal expressions. Artist Robert Dunahay is featured here. We look forward to seeing the show in 2009.
Michele Morgan Dave Conrey
November 8, 2008
3—6 PM
Indian Palms Country Club
Indio, California
RSVP for Invitation
866 721-9655
In what could be the first Mother-Son art exhibit in Coachella Valley, Michele Morgan and Dave Conrey are teaming together to showcase their artwork at an afternoon event.
Influences for both are Gauguin, Coravaggio, Modigliani, Pollack, Van Gogh and Jasper Johns. Come see for yourself how Mother and Son influenced each other to bring this collection together.
