Compound YV Foundation offers space and support to working artists through curation, exhibition design, installation, administration, and marketing. Our artist-run gallery, website, and social media give artists at various career stages an independently-run platform to share and sell their work. We work closely with each artist to clarify their unique voice and vision, copyediting, designing, and producing physical and digital content across our space, website, social media, newsletters, and client communications.
Our programming extends beyond physical exhibitions to include free and affordable workshops, live performances, artist panels, walkthroughs, and podcast episodes that deepen audiences’ engagement with specific works and the perspectives and backgrounds of the artists behind them. These events frequently touch on culturally relevant, political, and personal issues: how we treat our land, how domestic abuse ricochets through the media, how motherhood is experienced in the body, how we find ourselves across borders, and how queerness and mental health are interwoven, to name a few.
As our network of prospective and participating artists expands with each season, we build connections between artists who may one day collaborate, between artists and collectors, and between artists and the desert community. Artists who join this network always retain access to its supportive fabric—both through direct offerings from Compound YV Foundation and the connections and resources shared across the collective.
Our gallery is currently open to the public on weekends, by appointment, and for events. Outside of these hours, we remain active in the local arts community by visiting artists in their studios and supporting or hosting outside organizations’ events. Our Yucca Valley headquarters is one piece of a broader, self-sustaining vision that includes a robust digital presence giving artists greater visibility and a sales channel, and an outdoor sculpture garden and events venue.