WONDER VALLEY
NEW PAINTINGS BY DEBORAH MARTIN
Editorial Introduction By Alison Simonis
Photographic images courtesy of The 29 Palm Historical Society
OCTOBER 8- NOVEMBER 8, 2011
Opening Preview Saturday October 8th, 2011 6-9pm
October 22nd, 2011 4-6pm
Artist Reception With Live Music by Folk/Rocker Tim Easton and Special Guest Lydia Night
Sponsored by The Red Arrow Gallery and JTAG
In conjunction with the HWY 62 Art Tours
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Deborah Martin’s luminous and provocative style of realism contemplates the vestiges of American life on the edge in her latest exhibition, “Wonder Valley”.
Her painted depictions of remnants and relics of this quasi ghost valley settlement of homesteads born out of a 1938 Federal Land Grant comprise a portrait of a place in metamorphosis. Intimately coupled with the weathering austerities of the Mojave Desert, these outposts of human habitation exhibit an obvious struggle for survival.
Martin showcases a frontier of existential befuddlement: a seemingly confused pondering whether to persist, give up or renew amidst the trappings of domicile.
The rise and fall of opportunity, hope and longing present themselves, eerily, in these paintings.
The question looms whether an insubordinate Wild West is staging a mockery over the American materialist fantasy.
The Red Arrow Gallery 61597 29 Palms Hwy , Joshua Tree, CA 92252
