The Metro Purple (D Line) Extension Transit Project will provide a high-capacity, high-speed and dependable alternative for commuters to travel between downtown Los Angeles, the Miracle Mile, Beverly Hills and Westwood. This project is being built in three sections. Read more about the transit project here. 

The Purple (D Line) Extension Transit Project Art Program includes artworks integrated within the station architecture and future large-scale banner artworks displayed along construction site fences. 

Station Artists Section 1

Wilshire/La Brea

• Eamon Ore-Giron,  Infinite Landscape: Los Ángeles Para Siempre  (in progress)
• Fran Siegel,  Re:Orientation (in progress)
• Mark Dean Veca,  Miracle of La Brea (in progress)

Wilshire/Fairfax

• Karl Haendel,  Hands and Things (in progress)
• Ken Gonzales-Day,  Urban Excavation: Ancestors, Avatars, Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, Casts, Copies, Deities, Figures, Funerary Objects, Gods, Guardians, Mermaids, Metaphors, Mothers, Possessions, Sages, Spirits, Symbols, and Other Objects (in progress)
• Susan Silton,  We, Our, Us (in progress)

Wilshire/La Cienega

• Todd Gray,  Mining the Archive: S. Charles Lee, Architect (in progress)
• Mariana Castillo Deball,  Four Pleated Landscapes: Fossil Ground, Woven Cienega, Medicinal Flora, and Urban Desert Fauna (in progress)
• Soo Kim,  Night/Quartz (in progress)

Station Artists Section 2

Wilshire/Rodeo 

• Meleko Mokgosi, People Over Profit (in progress)
• Rigo 23, Gatherthing of the Waters (in progress)
• Devon Tsuno, Jūrōdō (Heavy Labor) (in progress)

Century City/Constellation 

• Eddie Rodolfo Aparicio, We’re sorry we weren’t able to clean your offices last night (in progress)
• Sarah Cain, Untitled (in progress)
• Phung Huynh, Allegorical Portal to the City Within a City (in progress)
• Oscar Magallanes, Lenticular Americana (in progress)
• Analia Saban, Terra Firma (in progress)

Station Artists Section 3

Westwood/UCLA 

• Moses X Ball, Untitled (in progress) 
• Karen Hampton, Memories (in progress)
• Yunhee Min, You are Here (in progress)
• Gala Porras-Kim, 91 Artifacts from The Fowler Collection (in progress)
• Iris Yirei Hu, The Wise Woman, She Calls Us into the Sun; Hug the Water; and An Intoxication of You, My Third Eye Seeps (in progress)

Westwood/VA Hospital

• Sandow Birk, A Panorama of the City and History of Los Angeles from Pre-History to the Present Day (in progress)
• Victoria Fu + Matt Rich, Untitled (in progress)
• Francesco Simeti, Untitled (in progress)
• Eloy Torrez, Five Veteran’s Stories (in progress)
• Piece by Piece, Veterans Legacy Art Project (in progress)

IN THE COMMUNITY

The Purple (D Line) Extension Transit Project Art Program includes an ongoing series of events, presentations, community engagement workshops, performances and exhibitions. To be kept informed of these events, please sign up for our email list.