To celebrate "Black History" month join and support Brothers of the Desert member "David Maurice Jones." At the Rubine Red Gallery.

Showcase Pop-up Dates Monday, February 23, 2026, to Sunday, March 1, 2026

Join David for Refreshments and Open House on Friday, February 27, 2026, 5 pm to 8 pm.

A percentage of proceeds from sales will benefit the Brothers of the Desert.

Artist Bio (David Maurice Jones)

David Maurice Jones is a sixty-one-year-old Chicagoan who moved to the Coachella Valley six years ago. One of his greatest life blessings was being a Peace Corps Volunteer, and years later, continuing his travels around the world for work, study, volunteerism, or just an everyday vacation. Witnessing how people culturally express their experiences, identity, spirituality, beliefs, dreams, and joys – for themselves, their families, and their communities intrigues him. Individual markings on floors of shrines, symbols on church stairways, pictures on headstones or monuments, geometric formations on walls, designs on clothes, etc., all help an individual or group convey personal meanings of day-to-day life. David is intrigued by symbols, patterns, and shapes, and strives to use them in his art to depict ideas, plants, animals, and nature.

Mini Pop-Up: Nocturnal Life

I love the night – the stillness, the crisp air that’s a reprieve from the heat of the day, a silence that is only broken by melodies of nature: leaves in the wind, waves lapping against each other or the shore, a bird chirp from a great distance. The pseudorealism pieces of this pop-up exhibit – drawn in black, archival ink set against a heavy, white watercolor paper – show my favorite time of darkness, well after the sun has set, yet still long before it returns. For each piece, I start with a treasured thought of nature – that comes from a dream, a noted passage, a hope shared with a friend, a need for my future – and begin with a loose, but recognizable sketch of a respite moment. With slow, patient breaths and sometimes unfocused hand motions, I fill in the image. Details are sometimes exactly what one might expect. Often, they are only a concept of what might be. Each image is the sum of a crowded pattern of notations that I hope takes viewers on a special, personal reflection of what might be in the depicted moment.