There has been a flurry of press since our David Hockney exhibition opened last Wednesday, July 15. If you didn’t catch them all, here is a press roundup for your reading pleasure:
L.A. Weekly: Art Icon David Hockney Shows Painting and Photography at L.A. Louver
“Think about it: he’s been a major art figure since the ‘60s, he’s still going strong, and he’s still the smartest, most dapper person in the room.”
The Guardian: David Hockney does LA again, but differently. ‘I stay in, I smoke, I feel OK’
“Technology has always altered pictures,” said Hockney, who believes the old masters used camera obscura techniques. “Now you have digits. You can do amazing things with them. The digits have freed us. We don’t know what the future will be like but we do know it’ll be very different.”
Architectural Digest: David Hockney Plays with Perspective in an L.A. Exhibition
“Alongside a series of canvases depicting friends playing cards in his L.A. studio, Hockney is presenting a new type of work that he’s dubbed ‘photographic drawings’—digital collages he describes as having a ‘3-D effect without the glasses.’
The Hollywood Reporter: David Hockney Makes Triumphant Return to L.A.
“Hockney isn’t likely to decamp from Los Angeles any time soon, even though he doesn’t explore the city very open. ‘All I want to do is work really. I don’t go out much. I don’t go to restaurants. I’m too deaf really. They are too noisy,’ said the artist, ‘I’ve plenty to do, and I’m doing it.’"
KUSC: Artist David Hockney Returns to LA for a New Gallery Exhibition
“Hockney himself attended the opening. I asked him about the intersection of images and technology in his work, spanning the decades.”
Los Angeles Magazine: David Hockney Goes 3-D
“The reason we have perspective with a vanishing point is that it came from optics,” he writes in the L.A. Louver catalog. “I’m sure that’s what Brunelleschi did. He used a five-inch diameter concave mirror to project the Baptistry onto his panel.”
Reuters: Hockney Plays with Perspective
“Thirty years ago, I did a Vogue for Paris using these ideas, but it’s only with digits (digital) that you can really take off, and I only just realized that two years ago,” Hockney, 78, told Reuters.
Art Lâ-bas: Inside Art: Changing Perspectives, David Hockney at L.A. Louver
“Hockney has also been using these advanced photographic techniques to create paintings that, again through their multiple perspectives, create a new sense of space and time.”
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David Hockney: Painting and Photography is on view at L.A. Louver through September 19. More info here.
Visit our Instagram page for more behind the scenes pictures of Hockney at the special media preview and the opening night reception.