Pick up copy of the Los Angeles Times for a recent feature on David Hockney. The article touches on the artist’s return to Los Angeles, his revived interest in portraiture, and what he’s described as a “fruitful” moment in his career. 

Here’s a short excerpt:

Hockney likes to experiment. The artist’s 50-year career sweeps in artworks made not only with paint on canvas but using such things as fax machines, still videos, color laser copiers and, more recently, iPhones and iPads. His multi-image photographic collages of the Brooklyn Bridge, Grand Canyon and Pearblossom Highway emerged in the ‘80s, and just a few years ago, Hockney was making multi-camera films, shown as one artwork made of several digital videos presented together on adjacent screens.

“He’s an image maker,” says his longtime dealer, Peter Goulds, at Venice’s LA Louver Gallery. “The new photographs are made by utilizing Photoshop and other current digital technology, and I see these digital assemblages as a natural evolution. He’s always gravitated to cameras, and bringing time and attitudes toward time into a pictorial space.”

– Barbara Isenberg

Read the rest of the piece here. 

L.A. Louver will be presenting new works by David Hockney this summer – keep posted for more updates as the exhibition nears!

IMAGE: Artist David Hockney sits in front of two new pieces at his studio in the Hollywood Hills. (Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)