Future, Artworks, Stations

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Artist(s): ,

Project Description

Victoria Fu and Matt Rich’s site-responsive design imagines the glass entryway as a prism-like object that will refract light and images down into the station. To create the artwork, the artists are using photographs they took of the neighborhood around the future station, filtering them through prisms in their studio, and then re-photographing those results. These site-specific photographs will appear in the artwork as vibrant shapes, colors, and effects collaged with painterly textures. Riders will be able to find hidden images of plants and architecture from the West LA VA Medical Center campus and nearby Wilshire Blvd integrated into the design.

Full Untitled artwork design by Victoria Fu + Matt Rich

Full Untitled artwork design in progress

Artist Statement

“The connection to the immediate, local environment is embedded in the visual and spatial experience of the design by the subway riders as they move through the station. In this way, an immersive, living experience will engage riders in ever-evolving ways.”

About the Artist

VICTORIA FU (b. 1978, Santa Monica, California) and MATT RICH (b. 1976, Boston, MA)

are individual artists who sometimes collaborate as a duo. Fu earned a Master of Arts in Art History and Museum Studies from University of Southern California in 2003 and a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts in 2005. She is a recipient of the Art Matters Foundation Grant (2008 and 2013), the Guggenheim Fellowship (2015), and the Harpo Foundation Grant for Visual Artists (2016). Rich earned a Master of Fine Arts from School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2004 and is a recipient of the Terra Foundation for American Art Fellowship (2003) and the Howard Foundation Fellowship (2019). The two began a collaborative partnership in 2017, combining Fu’s sensibilities as a moving image artist with those of Rich as a painter. Their projects have been shown in the United States as well as Europe, and together they were awarded the San Diego Art Prize in 2017. Fu and Rich currently work as associate professors of visual arts at University of San Diego.

Location: Westwood/VA Hospital