Outburst Project: Gabriela Ruiz

The Palm Springs Art Museum presents Outburst Project: Gabriela Ruiz through January 29, 2023 in the main museum.

Outburst Projects are small-format exhibitions that artists create following a month-long artist-residency at the Palm Springs Art Museum. The program is designed to support creative exploration, allowing artists to experiment with new bodies of work.

Gabriela Ruiz, a self-taught artist, grew up in Los Angeles’s San Fernando Valley to immigrant parents from Mexico.

Her practice embraces a Do-It-Yourself work ethic familiar to her from youth, one which expresses the vibrancy of Mexican cultural and artistic traditions. She employs everyday materials and blends a diverse range of mediums, using color, sound, and texture to create environments that allow a full immersion of the viewer in the worlds she creates. Her multimedia artistic practice is centered around issues of identity, the body, desire, and self-fashioning.

The museum is open 10 am to 5 pm on Sunday, Friday and Saturday. On Thursday the museum is open from noon to 8 pm. (Free admission on Thursdays from 5:00-8:00 pm - funded by the City of Palm Springs).