ARTIST’S DRAWINGS CREATE A “HAPPY DAY” IN TERMINAL 2 AT LOS ANGELES INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
(Los Angeles, California – February 7, 2012) Los Angeles World Airports (LAWA), in partnership with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs,announces an art exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Yong Sin at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX). The exhibition features large-scale, patterned ink drawings in the atrium in Terminal 2 Ticketing area on the Upper/Departures Level. The exhibition is on view through August 2012 for ticketed passengers, and portions are viewable by the general public.
Titled Happy Day, the exhibition consists of Sin’s black, white, and gray ink drawings of quirky figures and geometric shapes. Figures from her drawings have been enlarged in vinyl, highlighting Sin’s range of lively abstract shapes. The varying sizes of artworks and graphic elements interact with the architectural space, offering a simultaneously playful and thoughtful arrangement specifically for the space.
Individual characters and features also give way to simpler, larger abstract patterns. Her compositions include large areas of unmarked white surface, drawing attention to open versus occupied space. As Yong explains, “ The hundreds of painted figures appear to align to create large abstract forms at a distance. In addition to using patterns and repetition similar to nature, where the individuality of each leaf is sometimes lost to a collective notion of the tree, I also introduce subtle variations in marks and colors to reveal my intent is not duplication, but variation.”
About LAWA Art Program
Initiated in 1990, the purpose of the Public Art and Exhibitions Program at Los Angeles World Airports is to educate and entertain the traveling public at Los Angeles (LAX) and LA/Ontario International Airports and the FlyAway® Bus Terminal at Van Nuys Airport. 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.
About Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
LAX is the sixth busiest airport in the world and third in the United States, offering more than 600 daily flights to 91 domestic cities and more than 1,000 weekly nonstop flights to 56 cities in 32 countries on nearly 75 air carriers. It ranks 13th in the world in air cargo tonnage processed. In 2011 (the latest full-year statistics available), LAX served more than 61 million passengers, processed over 1.8 million tons of air cargo valued at nearly $80 billion, and handled 603,912 aircraft operations (landings and takeoffs). 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.
