DRIVING L.A.
2014-07-21Driving L.A., a group exhibition of photographs by sixteen artists (Tim Bradley, Jeff Brouws, Sean Hiller, E.O. Hoppé, John Humble, Michael Light, Malcolm Lubliner, Richard C. Miller, Jerry McMillan, Marvin Rand, Julius Shulman, Marvin Silver, John Swope, Mark Swope George Tate, Julian Wasser) represented by Craig Krull Gallery will, of course, include pictures made while driving, but it will also explore our lifestyles and built environments as they have taken shape on the streets of L.A. in the form of billboards, dingbats, car washes, drive-ins, freeways and maps-to-the-stars’-homes. But the driving culture of L.A. also includes those stationary cars on Hollywood studio sound stages with a film of passing scenery running behind them. It also includes an imagined L.A., as exemplified by Tim Bradley’s staged photo of a model he created of an El Camino with the giant framework of a church under construction on its bed. It is a haunting combination of our peripatetic lives and our often bizarre history of cults and pop-up religions.
Opposite – Joan Didion in front of her Stingray, 1970, Julian Wasser
Exhibition runs through to August 23rd, 2014
Craig Krull Gallery
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Avenue
Building B-3
Santa Monica
California
90404
