LAX ART
An upside of traveling during the recent airport slow down was visiting the extensive multi-media public art to be found at Los Angeles International Airport. I began with making my own graphic images of the light play in the atrium entrance.
Light play in the atrium.
Opening by Tofer Chin
Opening by Tofer Chin plays with scale, form and color. The wall text draws correlations between the transformative Southern California light and its ability to illuminate the dreams of creatives who flock there to bask and be inspired by its magnetic force.
Artist Bia Gayotto photographs six couples of different nationalities over the course of a nights sleep in Sleepers. The camera captured an image every 42 minutes. Inspired by dancer Trisha Brown and composer John Cage, Gayatto explores the use of unpredictability. Her selected images form an ‘involuntary choreography’.
Graphic Design in LA was a dynamic installation of work by 21 multi-disciplinary artists - including wonderful collaborative duos such as A History of Frogs and the non-profit magazine and podcast of DIY punk, Razorcake. Curated by Jake Yuzna and BF Hall. I grabbed snaps of work by these artists:
Swoon Type Speciman by Kathrine Hughes
The Difference Is Spreading by Eve Fowler
Magic Show by Mark Allen
Academic and artist Lia Halloran blew my mind and made my gender-parity-seeking-in-art-heart burst! Her huge scale cyantotype series Your Body Is a Space That Sees acknowledges the hidden astronomers who expanded our understanding of the stars and our place among them. Her painted negatives begin with an ink painting on transparent drafting film that is then baked in CA sunshine to create cyanotypes. I learned of contributions by Cecelia Payne-Gaposchkin, Henrietta Leavitt and Williamina Fleming. I will never look at the night sky and especially Orions belt without thinking of them.
