ART EXHIBITS FEATURE UNLIKELY FASHION AND DIGITAL FUSION AT LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
(Los Angeles, California – November 15, 2010) Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, announces two concurrent exhibitions – Unwearble and Human Nature – in Terminal 1 at Los AngelesInternationalAirport (LAX). Unwearable features mixed-media artworks from nine artists based on un-wearable fashion and Human Naturehighlights the use of digital photography and video by two artists to create composites of the human body and the natural world.
Both exhibitions are on view on the Upper/Departures Level for ticketed passengers through Feb. 15, 2011.
For Unwearable, Los Angeles-based curator Jean Clad invited nine artists to delve humorously into the dialogue between art and fashion. In a kind of creative revolt against common ideas of function in design, the artists experiment with garments made from cast paper, hardened fabric glue and film negatives, as well as unwearable hats, necklaces and other accessories. Featured artists include Slater Barron, Sandra D. Carter, Maddy Le Mel, Karen McCreary, Ann Morton, Gwen Samuels, Miriam Schaer, DK Seider and Jil Weinstock.
Located in the hallway to Gate 1, Human Nature features the work of Los Angeles-based artists Annie Buckley and Dane Picard. Using still animation, Picard combines hundreds of individual photos of a single hand onto high-definition video to simulate the motion of animals, such as a gibbon swinging, a herd of horses running, and a bird flying across the screen.
Buckley exhibits a series of collages using digital prints and light box sculptures. Her Hybrids series, which is based on a dream Buckley had of a woman transforming into a tree, depicts images of trees digitally fused with the legs and feet of her female friends and family. Landscape, a group of five light boxes, depicts rolling hills formed from hundreds of photos of feet. This is the first time Buckley and Picard have exhibited together as husband and wife.
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.
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) is the seventh busiest airport in the world, offering more than 565 daily flights to 81 destinations in the U.S. and over 1,000 weekly nonstop flights to 65 international destinations. LAX is part of a system of three Southern California airports – along with LA/Ontario International and Van Nuys generation 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.
