APPROVED PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT:

Projects are listed as address, development name (if known), artist name, approved artwork rendering and brief description.

1201 Detroit Street (Lexington Gardens)

Nest and Nuture by Rafael Lopez

Printed digital artwork embedded in powder-coated aluminum panels

The artwork design by artist Rafael Lopez will be printed to scale and embedded in 1/8” aluminum panels treated with a powder-coated finish. According to the artist, “This project is all about giving homes to people who don’t have one. I’m trying to create images and colors that inspire people who will live here. Using things like birds and nests in my artwork is my way of saying that we all search for a home where we can feel safe and keep our belongings, just like birds making nests. It’s about finding that place where we can let our dreams take flight and find a little peace in a busy world.”

1013 Genesee Avenue

Paint by Numbers by Elena Manfredi

Ceramic tile

Paint by Numbers pixilates a tree into an abstract form onto the façade of the new development. With a scale shift of the tiles, different levels of resolution are achieved and the image fades from literal at the bottom of the building to abstract at the top. The art work material is ceramic tiles.

1040 La Brea Avenue

1040 La Brea by Jim Isermann

Glass fiber reinforced concrete (GFRC) tile

1040 La Brea is inspired by the geometry of the building, specifically the parallelogram. The design is build upon 3 distinct sets of divisions of a parallelogram which are divided in half, on a diagonal, and lengthwise and then reconfigured to create dimensional custom tiles. The artwork material is glass fiber reinforced concrete.

8497 Sunset Boulevard (The NOW)

Virtual Paths: Data Sculptures by Refik Anadol

Lidar 3D scanner, free standing LED modules

Virtual Paths: Data Sculptures explores the hidden poetry of everyday life through the kinetic motion in and around the building. A 3D scanner system will track the motion of automobiles and pedestrians as objects along Sunset Boulevard and transform those patterns in real-time into ethereal, live data sculptures projected onto a series of free-standing vertical LED columns along the sidewalk. The artwork materials are LED towers, Lider 3D scanner, and artist-provided hardware.   

1136 La Cienega Boulevard

Additive Sculptures by Mark Hagan

Powder coated aluminum

These sculptures will be made up of numerous cast aluminum streetlight components and segments sourced from a downtown Los Angeles aluminum foundry. Cast from recycled aluminum (i.e. melted down car rims), they will be bead-blasted to achieve a uniform, matte-finish and then powder-coated in “families” of whites with optional bright hues unified in a glossy ceramic-like finish. The units for these sculptures will be hand-selected for their “aesthetic ambiguity,” that is, their ability to not look like streetlight parts.   

MORE INFORMATION

For questions or to report a damaged or vandalized artwork, contact Marcus Mitchell, Public Art Administrator (323) 848-3122 or mmitchell@weho.org. For people who are deaf or hard of hearing, please call, TTY: (323) 848-6496. To learn more information about the City of West Hollywood and its arts programs visit www.weho.org/arts.