Almost five years after our first visit to Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Museum of Assemblage Sculpture, we traveled to Joshua Tree again to enjoy Purifoy’s unique installation.
Noah Purifoy was born in Snow Hill, Alabama, in 1917, and worked most of his life in Los Angeles and Joshua Tree. Purifoy was the first African American to enroll at the Chouinard Art Institute (now CalArts) as a full-time student. He and earned his BFA in 1956. His earliest body of sculpture was constructed out of charred debris from the 1965 Watts riots in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles. It was the basis for 66 Signs of Neon, a group exhibition dealing with the Watts rebellion.
Noah Purifoy was cofounder of the Watts Towers Art Center, adjacent to Simon Rodia’s landmark Watts Towers in Watts.
Purifoy was on the California Arts Council from the late 1970s through late 1980s. He initiated programs such as Artists in Social Institutions, bringing art into the state prison system. In 1989 he then moved to the southern Mojave Desert to create artworks until his death in 2004.
In 1999, the Noah Purifoy Foundation (NPF), an all-volunteer non-profit foundation has been established with the mission to preserve and maintain Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Museum of Assemblage Sculpture.
Revisited: Noah Purifoy’s Outdoor Desert Museum of Assemblage Sculpture. Joshua Tree (California, USA), February 19, 2020.
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