IMAGE: Kim Schoenstadt, Parallel Versions Series: Los Angeles (with incomplete dimensional object), 2013
This new series of work (Parallel Versions Series) is based on unrealized architecture for Los Angeles. I’ve lived in Los Angeles for nearly 20 years and have seen lots where buildings are built, demolished and a new building goes up. Coming from Chicago where this doesn’t happen that often this idea of architectural impermanence became interesting. In a town where props and set design became an industry it seemed to me the relationship to architecture was more malleable.
In previous projects, I’ve used Los Angeles architecture as a comparison or contrasting idea – for example Soviet brutalist architecture v.s. California modernist architecture. For this project I focused on the alternate version of Los Angeles which could have existed. The title of the works refers to this idea of many worlds theory. I became very interested in this idea after watching a documentary about Hugh Everett on Nova - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/manyworlds/
The shaped three-dimensional work [featured above] has geometric interruptions weaving through the work. These shapes are based on Sol Lewitt’s Incomplete “Open Cube” series. I became interested in these while I was researching for my project at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum a few years ago. For the Wadsworth exhibition, I incorporated one of Tony Smith’s sculptures to interrupt the drawing. These elements formally function as an architectural “buttress” and this piece is the first non-wall drawing of mine that sculpturally pulls these shapes off the wall.
– Kim Schoenstadt
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Kim Schoestandt is one of 15 artists featured in Rogue Wave 2013, on view at L.A. Louver through August 23. Interested in learning more about Kim’s work? Now’s you’re chance to hear the artist speak in person. Kim Schoenstadt will be one of three Rogue Wave artists participating in this week’s Artist Talk Series, taking place at the gallery this Thursday, July 25th, 6:30pm.
As space is limited, reservations are recommended. Please RSVP to (310) 822-4955 or rsvp@lalouver.com
Keep posted our on our blog to see a video of that follows Kim through the production of her wall drawing on the gallery’s exterior, and at work in her Venice studio – coming soon!