āBoth Sides of Sunset: Photographing Los Angeles,ā the compendium of LA photography in which my work is featured, premiered as an exhibition last weekend atĀ Kopeikin GalleryĀ in Culver City.Ā Ā
Kopeikin Gallery
Los Angeles
Both Sides of Sunset
Group Show
October 24th Ā ā December 19th 2015
The LA Timesā book critic David L. Ulin wrote the forward to the 275 page look at LA -- and you can read it online here!
Also see the LA Times review of the book by Carolina A. Miranda here.
More infoĀ via Metropolis Books:
The Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to present a group exhibition of photographers who have made images inspired by the muse that is the City of Los Angeles. The exhibition opens Saturday October 24th with a reception from 6:00- 8:00 pm and runs through December 19th. This exhibition is free and open to the public.
āBoth Sides of Sunsetā is a visually attempted summation of the many facets that can be found within the sprawling city of Los Angeles. From Boyle Heights to Santa Monica beach, this show is inclusive of the various neighborhoods that give L.A. such depth and character. Affluent and impoverished, gritty and glamorous, staged and candid ā views that scratch the surface of the beautiful soul that gives life to such a magnificent place that locals love and outsiders vie to be included in.
People, buildings, and landscape serve as vehicles through which the city is perceived. From the starlets to the unknowns, mansions to the projects, and the hills to the beach. The individual locations, socioeconomic statuses, and architecture are each unique and brilliant on their own, but combined they each add to the very essence of what makes L.A. so loved. It is an intangible feeling of hope, regret. It is the distinct smells of fresh cut grass and hot asphalt and salty air. It is a place where tragedy and supreme happiness coexist to create one of the most incredible cities on Earth. āBoth Sides of Sunsetā aims to capture everything that embodies the City of Angels.
Inspiration for this exhibition comes from the recently published book āBoth Sides of Sunsetā by Marla Hamburg Kennedy and Jane Brown. The show features an eclectic mix of images found within the book as well as others that were carefully selected to strongly compliment the concept.
Artists featured include Grant Mumford, Kevin Cooley, Ed Ruscha, Tim Street-Porter, Todd Hido, Graziela Iturbide, Lise Sarfati, John Humble, Mark Swope, Robbert Flick, Bruce Davidson, Jeffrey Milstein, David Fokos, Mitch Dobrowner, Karen Halverson, Mike Slack, Alexandra Hedison, Bill Owens, Dennis Keely, Garry Winogrand, Gary Leonard, Florian Maier-Aichen, Ed Templeton, Mark Ruwedel, Lynn Saville, Lisa Kereszi, Sam Comen, Warren Neidich, Zoe Crosher, Matthew Brandt, and Matthew Porter.
