David Hockney Nathan Swimming Los Angeles March 11th 1982, 1982 composite polaroid 18 x 30 in. (45.7 x 76.2 cm)
David Hockney The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty-eleven) – 25 March, 2011
David Hockney painting plein air in East Yorkshire, UK
David Hockney in Los Angeles, 2015, Photo by Jean-Pierre Goncalves de Lima
David Hockney A Bigger Scrabble Players, 2015 Photographic drawing printed on paper, mounted on aluminum
Today the artist turns 78, but don’t let his age fool you. Hockney continues to remain just as dedicated to his studio work, with a relentless drive to explore new innovative ways to make images. Whether photographic collages, fax drawings, copy machine offset printing, or iPad drawings, Hockney has enjoyed a lifelong fascination with utilizing technology as a medium.
His most recent development is a new series of photographic drawings that are comprised of hundreds of images, all captured at close range, then seamlessly stitched together and enhanced to construct a singular composition, but with multiple vanishing points. We are thrilled to be showing this exciting new body of work in Hockney’s upcoming exhibition “Painting and Photography” – which opens at L.A. Louver on Wednesday, July 15, 2015.