Palm Springs, CA

Curator James Bacchi’s current exhibition, THE HEAT, is cause for celebrating Summer in Palm Springs. Now on exhibit at JAMES BACCHI CONTEMPORARY at The Shops at 1345, Bacchi’s outstanding assemblage of works by California and New York Artists, including Carolyn Meyer, Lucky Rapp,  Jay Samit, Rebecca Katz, and Eric Rewitzer, seem to encapsulate the season with his immediate sense of warmth and humor.

THE HEAT spotlights the Gallerist’s most recent addition to his noteworthy roster of Artists, Desert-based Jay Samit, whose works are exhibited front and center. 

“I was introduced to the artist and his work by Michael Davis, Creative Director at ONE ELEVEN LIVING.  Samit’s sassy homage to Lichtenstein made me laugh out loud. When I learned these works were watercolors, I had to include them. The artist’s ability to push this medium so far over the edge excited me.”

THE HEAT further intensifies with Carolyn Meyer’s fiery impasto painting of a Palm Springs sunrise, Lucky Rapp’s immortalized acronyms in hot pink resin and Eric Rewitzer’s “Mothra” taking over Japan Town in San Francisco.  

(Carolyn Meyer, Palm Springs Mornings, 20”x16”, oil on canvas)

(Lucky Rapp, OMFG, 8”x8”x2.5”, resin and mixed media on canvas)

(Eric Rewitzer, Mothra, 40”x40”, original collage and linocut)

And just like that, a carefully placed, stunning atmospheric painting titled “Reverie” by Rebecca Katz reminds us again why we so love THE HEAT.  

(Rebecca Katz, Reverie, 36”x36”, acrylic on archival pigment print on canvas)

THE HEAT continues through the Summer at JAMES BACCHI CONTEMPORARY @ The Shops at 1345 Palm Canyon, Palm Springs, CA.  Gallery Hours are Thursday – Monday, 11am-5pm.  415-652-2915  www.jamesbacchicontemporary.com