Visible Distance: Site-Specific Work By Faculty Member Jennifer Bolande
Part of Desert X, a contemporary art exhibition in Palm Springs
Visible Distance is a succession of photographs on billboards in Palm Springs which are meant to be viewed from a moving car. In a cinematic experience animated by movement and point of view, while driving either north or south on Gene Autry Trail, one can see images of the very mountains towards which one is heading— the San Bernardino mountains to the north and the San Jacinto mountains to the south. The photographs are positioned and scaled to create a continuous horizon line, reconnecting what the rectangle of the billboard had interrupted. Each photograph is unique to it's position along the route and, for one moment, perfect alignment with the horizon will occur.
Desert X, a site-specific contemporary art exhibition curated by Artistic Director Neville Wakefield, the project will be on view until April 30th.
Find out more about Bolande's work here.
Take a peek at our 2015 studio visit with Bolande here.
Read more about Desert X in the Los Angeles Times and TimeOut Los Angeles.