From Saturday, November 23 to Monday, March 31, 2025, the Palm Springs Art Museum will present David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed, Prints from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation.
The exhibition features nearly 200 works spanning over six decades of Hockney’s career—from his earliest etchings in the mid-1950s and ‘60s to his recent experiments with iPad and photographic drawings, underscoring the artist’s innovative experiments as a printmaker.
All the works in this retrospective are on loan from collector and philanthropist Jordan Schnitzer, named one of the Top 200 Collectors by ARTnews and his foundation, through which he shares his collection with millions each year by touring exhibitions and loaning works of leading artists to institutions large and small across the states.
David Hockney, Artist and Model, 1973 – 1974. Etching, soft ground etching, lift ground etching. Edition of 100. 29 3:4 x 23. © David Hockney.
Hockney’s most iconic subjects and series like California swimming pools, Yosemite National Park, and British landscapes in full bloom will be on display as well as intimate portrayals of friends, family, and queer desire in a variety of dimensions and styles. Of particular note are Hockney’s recent iPhone and iPad still life works. What began as impromptu sketches shared with friends and family soon became a vital means for Hockney to study and capture the world around him.
California has always been a significant site of inspiration for Hockney. Remembering his first trip to Los Angeles, the artist said, “As we flew in over Los Angeles I looked down to see blue swimming pools all over, and I realized that a swimming pool in England would have been a luxury, whereas here they are not, because of the climate.” Little did he realize these “luxuries” would soon become some of his most iconic and important subject matter.
The retrospective just blocks from the Paramount Studio marks the first solo exhibition of Hockney’s in Palm Springs, and is part of the PSAM’s major initiative Q+ Art, launched earlier this year, which highlights the work of artists who identify as LGBTQ+, supporting their creative endeavors and sharing their often-untold critical histories.
Artist and film production designer Aaron Osborne, has a new pop-up immersive art exhibition opening on Friday, Nov. 1 on view through Monday, Dec. 16. All in the Cards reimagines the Hollywood psychic shops with large, strange, and sensitive paintings that collage spiritual kitsch and cultural refuse to reimagine the Major Arcana Tarot deck and its narrative function. Alongside the uniquely presented paintings are immersive elements like an infinity box, film installation, an AI tarot-reading component, on-site tarot readings by a psychic during the opening reception, and more. Osborne has converted the entire building at 6007 Waring Ave in Hollywood into an immersive art experience.
In 2003, Osborne won an Emmy Award for Best Production Design for Without A Trace. Osborne also received an NEA Grant for his play Acid Whorehouse, produced for New York’s Franklin Furnace Theatre and Los Angeles’ Tamarind Theatre, as well as the LA Arts Endowment Grant for his piece Peter Pandemonium produced at LACE.
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In The Cards (Courtesy AARON OSBORNE)
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