Tim Walters

Deanna Valdez

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Featured in the West Wing in February is Tim Walters' photography project Five Acres of Heaven: Photographs from Wonder Valley. Wonder Valley is an unincorporated area in the desert east of Twentynine Palms, California. After World War II, homesteaders began to build there, taking advantage of the Small Tracts Act of 1938. In Five Acres of Heaven (named after impresario E.B. Moore’s sales pitch), Wonder Valley resident Tim Walters documents the remnants of these settlements and their successors.

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The East Gallery features photographer Deanna Valdez. She fell in love with photography at fifteen and studied in New York and Pasadena. With thirty eight years as a commercial photographer, in 2021 she created a technique that made her images more abstract with vibrant colors and textures. The rich sun-kissed colors amongst the clouds with dancing Joshua Trees in the foreground is her inspiration.

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Artists’ Guild members will display a variety of new works in the Members Room this

month.

 

The 29 Palms Art Gallery will host an art reception on Saturday, Feb 7, to celebrate the February exhibition. The gallery will be open all day, and reception hospitality will be

served on the gallery patio from 4-6 p.m. The public is invited to attend and meet the

artists. Admission is free.

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The exhibition will be on display at the gallery February 6 to March 1, open Friday through

Sunday, 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.