Once a rising star on New York’s modern art scene, Agnes Pelton is little known today. The abstract painter sensed a “spirit in nature” and let it lure her from the east coast to the west. In Cathedral City, California, she found her artistic vision—exploding stars, glimmering spheres, ovoid sunrises. The paintings in this exhibition celebrate the “especially bright spirit” of both the desert and the artist. —C.J.F.
The Arts Intel Report
Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
When
Sept 3 – Nov 1, 2020
Where
Agnes Pelton, “Messengers,” 1932. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum; Gift of The Melody S. Robidoux Foundation.