Installation view of Claire Falkenstein in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and Now at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1980. Courtesy of the Palm Springs Art Museum

Installation view of Claire Falkenstein in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and Now at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1980. Courtesy of the Palm Springs Art Museum

Installation view of Claire Falkenstein in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and Now at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1980. Courtesy of the Palm Springs Art Museum

Installation view of Claire Falkenstein in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and Now at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1980. Courtesy of the Palm Springs Art Museum

Installation view of Claire Falkenstein in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and Now at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1980. Courtesy of the Palm Springs Art Museum

Installation view of Claire Falkenstein in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and Now at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1980. Courtesy of the Palm Springs Art Museum

Installation view of Claire Falkenstein in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and Now at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1980. Courtesy of the Palm Springs Art Museum

Installation view of Claire Falkenstein in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and Now at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1980. Courtesy of the Palm Springs Art Museum

Installation view of Claire Falkenstein in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and Now at the Palm Springs Desert Museum, 1980. Courtesy of the Palm Springs Art Museum

The Palm Springs Desert Museum is extremely gratified to present the works of Claire Falkenstein not only because she is one of California's leading artists with an international following, but also because she embodies the highest degree of creativity. She has worked in multiple media over the years, experimenting as she goes, always on the lookout for new, innovative techniques. While her work spans a period of forty years, with a variety of media represented in this comprehensive retrospective, there remains a sense of unity that relates the individual pieces to one another. Claire Falkenstein has produced the most innovative and exciting art to have come out of the West in this century. This exhibition presents the development and scope of Claire Falkenstein's work in four primary periods: her work in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and now.

Claire Falkenstein in San Francisco, Paris, Los Angeles, and Now is organized by the Palm Springs Desert Museum (today the Palm Springs Art Museum) and curated by Katherine Plake.