MUSEUM TEMPORARILY CLOSED – Gerald Clarke: Falling Rock

Gerald Clarke: Falling Rock is the first survey and major solo exhibition of contemporary Cahuilla artist Gerald Clarke. Clarke is an artist, cowboy, university professor, tribal leader, and Indian (his preferred identity). Living with his family on their ancestral land near Anza, California, Clarke raises cattle as his father, grandfather, and other Cahuilla Indians have done since the Spanish Colonial period. Combining various media in his sculptures, paintings, and installations, Clarke derives artistic inspiration from his homeland’s cultural heritage and its desert and mountain environment, expressing traditional ideas in surprising and contemporary forms.