Mistakes were made! Come and see them! A plethora of learning moments (aka, artworks that kind of went wrong but also didn’t) by beautiful people, brought to you by @accnv_org
Closing reception this Friday, March 27th, 6-8 p.m., at @couchinthedesert
Also open by appointment but that only gives you what, three days? That’s not a lot.
OOPS! Back again! This time at the Lab in el Mercado! This year we are also extremely excited to announce that @dksole will be jurying this year's application pool!
D. K. Sole is a Las Vegas-based Australian artist. She works at the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, where she practices curation and edits the museum’s art writing publication, “Dry Heat.” Her writing has been published on the Couch in the Desert website. Her artworks have been exhibited in Florida and Colorado, but mostly in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Send us your flops, failures, and blunders at the link in our bio. Want to see OOPS! 1 + 2? We've got substacks there also!
Thanks to everyone who came last night. You are appreciated. Thanks to Wendy and @couchinthedesert for inviting me in. I’m planning to gallery sit on the last weekend of the show (the 21st and 22nd of March), there will be a closing reception on the 27th, and outside that it’s open by appointment.
Check out Stick Shadows by D. K. Sole featured at DBP2025: Gravity
"I use sculpture, drawing, and photography to estrange myself from everyday objects like bottle caps, supermarket circulars, and scraps of discarded plastic. I admire artists who are inspired by cheap materials (like Richard Tuttle), awkward shapes (like Alice Mackler) and boring repetition (Bernd and Hilla Becher). Every time I see a fallen stick casting a shadow, I think, “I can't do better than that."
D.K. Sole
Plus plus equals
March 2- 27, 2026
Closing Reception, Friday, March 27, 6-8PM
Couch in the Desert
1507 W. Oakey
Gallery Hours March 21, 9AM-4PM and March 22, 10AM—4PM
We are very excited to announce a solo exhibition at Couch in the Desert by D.K. Sole. This year marks the 10-year anniversary of Couch in the Desert (previously Settlers + Nomads). D.K. Sole has been a dedicated and important contributor to the project writing about Las Vegas exhibitions since our founding. We are thrilled to host this installation of her new sculptures. Please join us on March 6 from 6-8PM for an artist reception.
“The conditions around us on this planet seem to enjoy creating single things, unities, like a stick and its shadow. It takes effort to part them (the stick blows away, or maybe someone kicks it). The moment of centaur unification, what is it? is it thick or thin? is it ephemeral or quiet? where is it? how does it take place? What if they were trapped together?” - D.K. Sole
DM CITD or @dksole to visit by appointment.
I’ll be showing some sculptures of sticks and their shadows at Couch in the Desert (@couchinthedesert ) next month. You can find it at 1507 West Oakey, over the road from the Little Darlings parking lot. The reception takes place on the evening of Friday, March 6th.
The restless cut-out shape-beings from Raphaele Cohen-Bacry’s last show in this building (the playing cards a few years ago) have expanded into mixed-media landscapes—seas, plains, mountains—they’ve found somewhere new to live. At the Sahara West Studio space curated by Darren Johnson.
