We've been workin on something big! 🤯🌸💐 The ACCNV is super excited to announce our first ever Spring Series: 12 weekend pop ups through May 2026! In el Mercado at the Boulevard Mall, join us every weekend to see exciting work around the state and beyond! 🥳
Speechless from Daniela Castañeda’s solo exhibition, Bésame Mucho. If you missed last night, come by and see it from 12-3 today!
“Bésame Mucho, (Kiss me a lot) takes its title from the iconic song by Mexican composer Consuelo Velazquez, written in her youth before experiencing her first kiss. Rooted in longing and anticipation, the song reflects a desire for intimacy imagined before it is lived. This exhibition extends that tension between objects and everyday intimacy through
larger-than-life forms, candy-colored surfaces, nostalgic treats, piñata techniques and references to Chicano culture. Hands, hair, hearts, cars, and playful, exaggerated objects evoke both tenderness and excess.
Like the anticipation of a first kiss, the process of building this exhibition becomes an act of longing where desire, memory, and imagination converge.”
Much ❤️❤️❤️ for everyone that came through, Besos to you!
Exhibition will be open tomorrow Sunday from Noon til 3 p.m. at The Lab inside El Mercado -Boulevard Mall.
Thanks for stopping by, I loved our conversations and catching up✨️
#sculptureinstallation #piñatas #clown #sacredheart #paletas
Polishing up for this Saturday. Someone passed by yesterday and mentioned "a new nail shop is opening up," hence the hand/ full set nail sculptures. Which is ironic because I make my own fullsets at home and these are bout to be installed. 💅❤️🔥
Our next stop on the way? Gravity! The 2025 iteration of the Desert Biennial Project took place on the Apex Dry Lake Bed and featured 100+ Nevada based artists.
Tell us, what was your favorite part of DBP2025?
Congratulations to our Juror’s picks, @siopaoleon and @marinashaltout from last weekend’s ’artshow.jpg’.
Thank you to our incredible juror, @mary_.sabo for curating this fine selection of meme influenced works, and for the state of the art high quality trophies.
The very first Desert Biennial Project!
The inaugural project, Stone Soup, took place in 2023 on the Jean Roach Dry Lake Bed and featured 36 artists, some of whom are joining once again in 2027.
Thank you to our original participants:
Abney Wallace, Adriana Chavez, Alisha
Kerlin, Anna Newman, Daniel Pineda Luna,
D.K. Sole, Ellie Ratliff, Haide Calle, Ika Pearl,
Kayla Lockwood, Keeva Lough,
Lane Sheehy, lukewärm, Mary Sabo, Nick
Giordano, Romina Villarreal,
Shahab Zargari
This week at the Lab: Bésame Mucho by Daniela Castañeda
Bésame Mucho, “Kiss me a lot,” takes its title from the iconic song by Mexican composer Consuelo Velazquez, written in her youth before experiencing her first kiss. Rooted in longing and anticipation, the song reflects a desire for intimacy imagined before it is lived. This exhibition extends that tension between objects and everyday intimacy through larger-than-life forms, candy-colored surfaces, nostalgic treats, piñata techniques and references to Chicano culture. Hands, hair, hearts, cars, and playful, exaggerated objects evoke both tenderness and excess.
Like the anticipation of a first kiss, the process of building this exhibition becomes an act of longing where desire, memory, and imagination converge.
The team behind DBP 2027.
Founded and led by ACCNV co-founders
Bailey Anderson and Iulia Octavia, Desert
Biennial Project continues to grow as a
statewide, artist-led initiative.
This year, they’re joined by Lydia Silic as
Guest Curator and Laura Esbensen as
Administrator.
Coming soon to the Lab: Bésame Mucho by Daniela Castañeda
Bésame Mucho, “Kiss me a lot,” takes its title from the iconic song by Mexican composer Consuelo Velazquez, written in her youth before experiencing her first kiss. Rooted in longing and anticipation, the song reflects a desire for intimacy imagined before it is lived. This exhibition extends that tension between objects and everyday intimacy through
larger-than-life forms, candy-colored surfaces, nostalgic treats, piñata techniques and references to Chicano culture. Hands, hair, hearts, cars, and playful, exaggerated objects evoke both tenderness and excess.
Like the anticipation of a first kiss, the process of building this exhibition becomes an act of longing where desire, memory, and imagination converge.
