The open-air museum preserves Purifoy’s junk art and sees visitors from around the world. Columnist David Allen checks it out.
For an art figure with worldwide renown,From 29 Palms Highway, the main drag, you drive north out of town through increasingly sparse neighborhoods, making a series of turns just as the road signs say “Pavement Ends.” The final couple of blocks, while still paved, are so bumpy that even rumbling along at idle, I wondered if my Fiat might shake apart.
Three wooden ladders stand in a row, cords strung between them. It’s called “San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge.” Bitter humor marks this piece reflecting the segregated South in which the Black artist Noah Purifoy, born in Alabama in 1917, grew up. It’s among the works at the Noah Purifoy Outdoor Art Museum in Joshua Tree.
The village has representations of a theater, a commissary and a playground in the form of “65 Aluminum Trays,” which assembled cafeteria-like trays into an undulating shape like a children’s slide. The village also has a gallows, which have taken on new relevance after Jan. 6. My first visit was in March 2021, drawn by my positive memory of a 2015-16 show of Purifoy’s assemblages at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, for many of us our introduction to his name and work.
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