High Desert
Art Fair
March 8 - March 9, 2024
Wienholt Projects is pleased to exhibit at High Desert Art Fair with artists Saxon Brice, Laurie Victor Kay, Patricia Carr Morgan, and Russell Young , on view March 8-9, 2025 in Pioneertown, CA.
The exhibition brings together works in the High Desert that are shaped by dust and distance, by mirage and memory, framed by the landscape that made them. These artists’ work reconfigure the visual vocabulary of the American West and art-making traditions.
Russell Young, How the West Was Won and Where It Got Us #2, four color screen print on linen, railway felt and billboard, 54 x 130 in.
The works in the exhibition range from contemplative explorations of landscape and western iconography, such as Morgan’s uncanny works that reassemble American western films and Kay’s photographs of tonal horizons, to direct references of historical and contemporary culture, such as Young’s silk screen paintings of Hells Angels, NASCAR races and the real cowboy who inspired Marlboro Man advertisements and Brice’s Renaissance-informed depictions of transience, addiction and crypto-mining inspired by the Youtube channel Soft White Underbelly.
Saxon Brice, IRENE, charcoal, sanguine and sepia conté, and gouache on paper, 25.5 x 19.5 in.
Wienholt Projects photographed in The Art Newspaper
“For participating galleries, the High Desert Art Fair is a means to plug into the art scene in the area, meet other desert dwellers and make connections outside of the desert.” - Angella d’Avignon, “Upstart art fair brings collectors to an Old West movie set in the California desert ,” The Art Newspaper
(Left to right): Russell Young, Saxon Brice, Laurie Victor Kay.
Exhibiting artists:
Saxon Brice
Patricia Carr Morgan
Laurie Victor Kay
Russell Young
Saxon Brice
Saxon Brice is a Los Angeles-based multi-disciplinary artist working in oil painting, traditional draftsmanship, and digital media.
Brice received his BFA from Parsons School of Design in 2010, and later studied classical techniques at the Florence Academy of Art from 2021 to 2022. He has assisted major artists including Doug Aitken, Jesper Just, Duke Riley, and Alex Israel, and has created original artwork for musical artists ranging from Katy Perry to Florence + The Machine. Brice has produced large bodies of work for film and TV, most notably the haunted paintings of Dan Gilroy’s 2019 horror/satire, Velvet Buzzsaw, for Netflix. Brice’s work has been included in exhibitions at Block Gallery, Art Division Gallery, and John Natsoulas Gallery, all in California. His artwork is in the collections of the James A. Kidd Foundation.
Website: https://saxonbrice.com
Instagram: @saxisfaction
Patricia Carr Morgan
Patricia Carr Morgan is a conceptual artist based in Tucson, Arizona who has shown her work in museums and galleries across the U.S. and in China, and has enriched communities with her public art. Morgan explores memory, loss, and reality through sculpture, interdisciplinary installation, and photography. It is this last medium that drives her new work, an exploration of glacier ice and climate change.
Website: https://www.patriciacarrmorgan.com
Instagram: @patriciacarrmorgan
Laurie Victor Kay
Laurie Victor Kay (b. 1971) is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work blurs the lines between photography, painting, installation and digital mediums to address constructed imagination, idealization and a sense of the surreal. Her various bodies of work range from photographic series that reimagine and abstract the everyday to autobiographical mixed-media series that examine the psyche, vulnerability and contemporary culture. Throughout all her practice, she emphasizes seemingly opposing elements as a means to visualize psychological landscapes and the structural interactions between nature and the inorganic.
She studied painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and photography at Columbia College Chicago (BFA, 1995). Her work can be seen in permanent installations at UNMC’s Lauritzen Outpatient Center and Fred & Pamela Buffett Cancer Center, the Women’s Center for Advancement, May River Capital in Chicago, 4 World Trade Center in New York, Marriott Capitol Arts District, and Tenaska. She has exhibited throughout the United States and Europe, and her work is held in numerous private collections around the country. She is the recipient of numerous awards, has collaborated with companies across the globe, like Jim Thompson Thai Silk Company and Solé Bicycles, and has worked with an impressive roster of clientele, including the likes of Nike, Alanis Morisette, Warren Buffett, Robert Redford, Michael Douglas, Alexander Payne, Gigi Gorgeous, The Red Cross, The New York Times, Condé Nast Traveler, to name a few. She is a current member of the Healing Arts Advisory Board for the University of Nebraska Medical Center.
She currently lives and works in Omaha, NE.
Websites: https://www.laurievictorkay.com
Instagram: @laurievictorkay
Russell Young
Russell Young, born in 1959 in Yorkshire, is a British-American artist best known for his large scale silk screen paintings examining cultural icons, the nature of fame, and the souring of the American Dream.
His earliest breakthrough was his photography of George Michael for the sleeve of the album Faith in 1987. Young photographed many music stars throughout the 1970s and 1980s, including Morrissey, Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, REM, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Diana Ross, Paul Newman, Björk, and many others. He went on to shoot over 100 music videos for leading artists during MTV’s height in the 1990s, which brought him to the United States.
Young eventually moved to California, where he began his current practice with his sold-out show Pig Portraits in Los Angeles in 2003. The many series that have followed, including his ongoing Heroes + Heroines and WEST, demonstrate his visceral, analog processes and signature use of diamond dust. He has exhibited across the world in numerous galleries alongside masterclass artists, institutions, and cultural figures. These include museum exhibitions at the Modern Art Museum Shanghai, Multimedia Art Museum Moscow, Cornell Art Museum, Polk Museum of Art, and the Goss-Michael Foundation. His genesis NFT debuted and sold on SuperRare in 2022.
Young’s work is included in many prominent private and institutional collections including those of Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, David Bowie, Drake, Angelina Jolie, David Hockney, Kayne West, Brad Pitt, and others, as well as The Getty Collection in Los Angeles and The White House Collection in Washington, D.C. His works have crossed the auction block at all of the world’s major auction houses, including Sotheby’s, Christie’s, and Phillips.
He currently lives in Southern California.
Website: www.russellyoung.com
Instagram: @bankrobbercalifornia