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Contact: Alison Shoup
Joshua Tree National Park management is pleased to announce Other Worlds, a new art exhibition by renowned local-area artist Diane Best. For many years, Diane has painted remote, uninhabited, and overlooked corners of the desert. Interested in recording a single incredible moment of converging light and landscape, she felt it important to encourage preservation by showcasing the desert wilderness as it exists.“Other Worlds” comes from a time of chaos, change and (hopefully) revolution of thought. Working from memory of past travels and short excursions into Joshua Tree National Park, Diane creates worlds not entirely based in reality. No longer restricted in her professional work to background paintings for animation (the artist’s prior career), these are background paintings for one’s life.
Originally from Boston, Diane studied at Stanford University and the San Francisco Art Institute before moving to Los Angeles in 1983 where she worked as a commercial artist for the entertainment industry. Moving to Joshua Tree in 1995, she shifted the focus of her talent to capturing the intense drama of the desert landscape through painting, photography & film. In recent years she has also explored and depicted the ice deserts of the Arctic and Antarctic. Her work has been shown throughout the country, including shows at the Southwest Museum and the Carnegie Museum who have one of her paintings in their permanent collection. Diane’s film work has been shown at several film festivals, she taught drawing workshops for the Desert Institute and has been profiled in many prominent publications.
The exhibition will run from January 10, 2025, until March 31, 2025, at the Black Rock Art Gallery in the Black Rock Nature Center, located at 9800 Black Rock Canyon Rd, Yucca Valley, CA 92284. There will be an opening reception on Friday January 10, 2025, from 5pm to 7pm. The building is open 7 days a week, 8am – 11am, 12pm-4pm, entrance to the gallery is free.
Last updated: January 6, 2025