ARTIST’S VISUAL APPROACH TELLS A STORY IN PHOTOGRAPHS AT LAX
(Los Angeles, California – May 3, 2013) Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, announces a new photography installation by artist Eileen Cowin at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). Cowin’s installation, titled Point of Departure, tells a story in four large-scale color photographs focusing on simple gestures and everyday objects to portray ideas about chance, fate, memory, and experience. The installation is on display at Terminal 1 on the Upper/Departures Level for ticketed passengers through December 2013.
Point of Departure explores the fine line between public and private, the representation of intimacy, the investigation of the familiar, and the emotional content of the mundane. Contrasting four distinct images—from a shelf of books with travel-related titles to a view of a man leaving an apartment building with his packed bags—each photograph creates or references a separate event. At first glance, these images appear as unconnected scenarios; however, upon closer look, the images are linked through the appearance of reoccurring individuals and visual clues.
These clues let Cowin establish a visual narrative that allows the viewer to interpret, conclude, and draw meaning related to one’s own internal and external experiences.
About Los Angeles World Airports Art Program
Initiated in 1990, the purpose of the LAWA Art Program is to provide opportunities for educational, entertaining, and enriching cultural experiences for the traveling public at LAX and LA/Ontario International Airports and the LAX FlyAway® bus terminal. The program showcases local and regional artists through temporary exhibitions and permanent public art installations, which enhance and humanize the overall travel experience for millions every year. For additional information, please visit www.lawa.org .
About Los Angeles International Airport
LAX is the sixth busiest airport in the world and third in the United States, offering 680 daily flights to 96 domestic cities and 930 weekly nonstop flights to 59 cities in 30 countries on 63 commercial air carriers. It ranks 14th in the world and fifth in the U.S. in air cargo tonnage processed. In 2012, LAX served nearly 63.7 million passengers, processed over 1.9 million tons of air cargo valued at nearly $89.6 billion, and handled 605,480 aircraft operations (landings and takeoffs). An economic impact study in 2011 reported that operations at LAX generated 294,400 jobs in Los Angeles County with labor income of $13.6 billion and economic output of more than $39.7 billion. This activity added $2.5 billion to local and state revenues. LAX is part of a system of three Southern California airports – along with LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys general aviation – that are owned and operated by Los Angeles World Airports, a proprietary department of the City of Los Angeles that receives no funding from the City’s general fund.
