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Public Art Display – Art Exhibit
LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CELEBRATES 20TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT (ADA) WITH TERMINAL ART EXHIBIT
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(Los Angeles, California – September 2, 2010) Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA) in partnership with the Department on Disability and Department of Cultural Affairs commemorates the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), with a new art exhibit of paintings and mixed media artworks by 18 Southern California artists living with disabilities on display at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) in the Connector Hall between Terminals 2 and 3 on the Upper/Departures Level. The free exhibit will be on display through November 3, 2010.
Featuring 23 artworks selected through a juried open competition, the exhibit presents skilled artists working with local non-profit organizations such as the Tierra del Sol Foundation, First Street Gallery Art Center, Arts & Services for Disabled Inc. and the Braille Institute. These organizations empower individuals to overcome impairments by providing educational, social, and recreational programs, including art workshops to promote artistic proficiency and personal expression.
Exhibiting artists include Franklyn Burns, Mari Cardenas, Noah Erenberg, Rebecca Guerra, Sarit Halo, Tommy Hollenstein, Trina Kirkman, Douglas Larsen, Cristina Mariotta, Dru McKenzie, Amber Nething, Hae Sung Pak, Harold Sakamoto, Ngay Ta, John Valles, Isabel Diana Vartanian, Guy Wonder and Esther Zabin.
The Americans with Disabilities Act is a landmark and historic civil rights law that prohibits discrimination against persons with disabilities. President George H. W. Bush signed the Act on July 26, 1990.
The purpose of the Airport Arts Exhibition Program at LAX and LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT), is to educate and entertain the traveling public, while emphasizing a cultural experience highlighting what makes Los Angeles memorable and interesting. Exhibits may be historic, popular, artistic, or graphic design in nature and may arise from museums, fine art, archives, environment, or other fields. Exhibitions can be found on display in Terminals 1, 2, 3 and Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, and Terminals 2 and 4 at LA/Ontario.
For more information visit the LAX website at www.lawa.org
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(Installation View) Commemorating the 20th anniversary of the signing of the Americans With Disabilities Act (ADA), LAWA exhibits artworks by eighteen Southern California artists living with disabilities on exhibit at LAX, located in the Connector Hall between Terminal 2 and 3, on the Ticketing Level for public view.
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Sunset Paradise by Douglas Larsen
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Clown du Jour # 1 by Franklyn Burns
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ARTISTS CREATE NEW PATHWAYS INTO OUR ENVIRONMENT AT LAX
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(Los Angeles, California – August 30, 2010) Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, announces a group exhibition titled From Patterns to Pathways, coordinated by guest curator Timothy Nolan, at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Four installations feature recycled and repurposed materials by Los Angeles-based artists Julia Latané, Rebecca Niederlander, and Carrie Ungerman. Each artist incorporates patterning and repetition to create abstract artworks that reference the natural world and our relationship to it. Nolan, an artist and independent curator, was a 2008 recipient of the City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowship.
These art installations are located in Terminal 3 on the Arrivals Level and are on view to the general public. The installation is on display through January 4, 2011.
Constructed on site, Ungerman arranges 30,000 individual water bottle labels, collected from her community, into the form of a running river. Blue and white labels are laminated and strung over 50 feet against a silver painted wall to simulate a twisting waterway as it evolves into tributaries. The artwork alludes to consumption, preservation, and society’s never-ending demand for water.
Niederlander fills the hallway ceiling with clusters of multi-colored electrical wires suspended like a shifting cloud. The spindly tendrils create an interconnected network of mobiles that offers a different perspective for passengers as they pass beneath the artwork.
Latané uses common industrial materials to invite the viewer into an association with the forces of outer space. In one artwork, Latané re-creates the vast pull of a black hole with a swirling pattern of bejeweled velvet cushions. In another artwork, shiny nail heads hammered into black panels mimic the night sky and city lights.
The artworks offer pathways through which viewers are able to wander and wonder at the vastness and complexity of our natural surroundings. “I hope passengers might contemplate the fact that every living thing begins and ends with a definitive, elegant pattern,” states Nolan.
The purpose of the Airport Arts Exhibition Program at LAX and LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT), is to educate and entertain the traveling public, while emphasizing a cultural experience highlighting what makes Los Angeles memorable and interesting. Exhibits may be historic, popular, artistic, or graphic design in nature and may arise from museums, fine art, archives, environment, or other fields. Exhibitions can be found on display in Terminals 1, 2, 3 and Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, and Terminals 2 and 4 at LA/Ontario.
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(Photo credit: Bill Short)
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ARTISTS GAIN ALTITUDE IN EXHIBIT OF ATMOSPHERIC PERSPECTIVES AT LAX
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(Los Angeles, California –June 11, 2010) Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, announces an exhibition of over thirty artworks by ten artists employing painting and photography to depict a variety of cloud formations, stars and horizons on display at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Guest curated by Mark Steven Greenfield, artist, professor and former director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Art Center, the exhibit is titled Altimetry, and is located in Terminal 1, Departures Level for ticketed passengers. This exhibit is free and on display through October 31, 2010.
Altimetry explores multiple perspectives on the concept of altitude, introducing viewers to a wide spectrum of striking vistas captured outdoors, through the camera lens and even the telescope. “In the context of air travel, it is my hope that these artistic interpretations might challenge us to pause long enough to appreciate where we’ve been, or perhaps more importantly, where we’re going,” states Greenfield. The artists in Altimetry include Hilary Brace, Anita Bunn, Denise De Grazia, Raoul De La Sota, Samantha Fields, Yoichi Kawamura, Ted Kincaid, Siri Kaur, Catherine Roberts Leach, and Jennifer Shaw.
More than an escape, these artworks illustrate the power of the imagination to provide a remedy for the frequent distractions of everyday life. The vastness of the sky and shapes of clouds have the potential to become a repository for our daydreams, casual musings and an inescapable urge to build narratives.
The purpose of the Airport Arts Exhibition Program at LAX and LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT), is to educate and entertain the traveling public, while emphasizing a cultural experience highlighting what makes Los Angeles memorable and interesting. Exhibits may be historic, popular, artistic, or graphic design in nature and may arise from museums, fine art, archives, environment, or other fields. Exhibitions can be found on display in Terminals 1, 2, 3 and Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, and Terminals 2 and 4 at LA/Ontario.
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SHAPING NARRATIVE: ABSTRACT ARTWORK COMBINES STORY AND PAINT IN EXHIBIT AT LAX
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(Los Angeles, California –June 4, 2010) Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, announces an exhibition of twenty-two abstract paintings by artist Quinton Bemiller displaying a build-up of vividly layered shapes, forming lush scenes on display at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The exhibit is titled Subsequent Events, and is located in Terminal 1, Arrivals Level for public view. This exhibit is free and on display through September 14, 2010.
Through the application of paint in successive layers, Bemiller’s shapes represent moments in time, creating paintings which reflect the accumulation of events similar to the way lives are a collection of separate moments tied together to form a narrative. “I create scenes that exist in my imagination, yet are inspired by naturalism and the visual realities of our world,” states the Los Angeles-based artist.
Featured in the exhibit is Bemiller’s series of eighteen acrylic paintings titled Kusama Trees, which serves as an homage to Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s characteristic polka dots and adventurous outdoor installations. Bemiller’s paintings depict a kind of “fictional landscape” through the accumulation of color and form.
The purpose of the Airport Arts Exhibition Program at LAX and LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT), is to educate and entertain the traveling public, while emphasizing a cultural experience highlighting what makes Los Angeles memorable and interesting. Exhibits may be historic, popular, artistic, or graphic design in nature and may arise from museums, fine art, archives, environment, or other fields. Exhibitions can be found on display in Terminals 1, 2, 3 and Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, and Terminals 2 and 4 at LA/Ontario.
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NATURAL STATE: ARTIST EXPLORES IMAGINARY ECOSYSTEM IN LAX EXHIBIT
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(Los Angeles, California – May 10, 2010) Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, announces a new art installation titled Dispersion, a three-dimensional portrayal of artificial plant seeds and spores carried through the air in a pristine recreation of natural events by multimedia artist Meeson Pae Yang, on display at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) until September 21, 2010.
Located in the Terminal 1 art display case, in the departures level, on view for ticketed passengers, Meeson Pae Yang’s site-specific installation is constructed from multiple natural and synthetic materials, such as preserved moss, vinyl and silicone tubing, creating an ethereal micro-universe frozen in the moment when seedlings get released to far away destinations. “This art installation pauses this aerial action in place, like a still frame, capturing nature’s clever methods employed for scattering seeds to ensure germination,” said Yang.
Yang’s ordered adeptness at capturing the ephemeral qualities of nature, light and atmosphere transforms the confined architectural space into an expanded and imaginary environment. In addition to the delicate sculptural qualities of surface, texture, and color, Dispersion represents a mythological world from a myriad of perspectives, including both personal and empirical.
The purpose of the Airport Arts Exhibition Program at LAX and LA/Ontario International Airport (ONT), is to educate and entertain the traveling public, while emphasizing a cultural experience highlighting what makes Los Angeles memorable and interesting. Exhibits may be historic, popular, artistic, or graphic design in nature and may arise from museums, fine art, archives, environment, or other fields. Exhibitions can be found on display in Terminals 1, 2, 3 and Tom Bradley International Terminal at LAX, and Terminals 2 and 4 at LA/Ontario.
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