Untitled
Intertwining issues of race, class and gender, this untitled series of self-portraits are an investigation of the aesthetic and cultural divide between white and black, a chasm as palpable as it is “invisible.”
Author: Metro Art
over-under-over
Ann Hamilton’s artwork will wrap the station’s glass entry pavilion in woven lines inspired by the significance of the station’s downtown location and the surrounding hub of cultural institutions as a place of crossings, intersections and exchanges.
Regarding Paul R. Williams
Pioneering Los Angeles architect, Paul R. Williams (1894-1980), was the first Black architect to become a member of the American Institute of Architects and built a wildly successful career as an architect, decades before the Civil Rights Movement.
Q&A for Artwork Design Services for Temporary Construction Site Visual Mitigation Banners, Westside Purple (D Line) Extension Project, Section 3 Westwood/VA Hospital Station
Q&A for Artwork Design Services for Temporary Construction Site Visual Mitigation Banners, Westside Purple (D Line) Extension Project, Section 3 Westwood/VA Hospital Station.
Q&A for 2022 Artist Pool for Digital Media Opportunities
Q&A for 2022 Artist Pool for Digital Media Opportunities
Power
A series of large-scale, unique direct-positive photographs made on discarded 55- gallon oil drum lids is grounded in one of the most contentious issues of our time: the social, political and environmental landscape of the American oil industry.
Namonai Ike
Namonai ike in Japanese means, “a pond with no name.” Known for its picturesque beauty, this small village pond in the middle of Japan is neither named nor marked on a map.
Mothership Opera
A golden spaceship awakens after a thousand-year stasis and blasts off toward its planet of origin.
Morning
“You start every day and try to keep on moving, but when you find yourself in an environment where meaning shifts and you have the opportunity to question its essence, it is like looking at reincarnation from aside: how process involves different states of being and perspectives.”
Metro Loop
Set in a not so distant future, we envision the streets of Los Angeles unhindered by the inefficiency and congestion of the internal combustion engine.
Memories in Between
Between the texts are holes where the sunrise peeks through the paper. When the sun sets, only the dots appear but when the sun rises, the light penetrates the paper to reveal the texts – the memories in between.
Gather + Listen
“Owambe,” loosely translates to “it’s here” in Yoruba. This animation focuses on the subtle, unconscious rhythms that happen at an owambe.
Four Pleated Landscapes: Fossil Ground, Woven Cienega, Medicinal Flora and Urban Desert Fauna
Mariana Castillo Deball‘s artwork for the Wilshire/La Cienega Station is comprised of four landscape images integrated into two collages that run along the north and south walls of the station concourse.
DEUX
An exploration of psychological time meant to offer an intimate encounter with movement in solitary space for Metro ridership.
Caricias
A multimedia project around migrant LGBTQ+ tribute artists who embody and perform as iconic divas in the Latinx community such as Jenni Rivera, Juan Gabriel, Celia Cruz, Chalino Sanchez, Selena and Paquita la del Barrio.
Call to Artists: Artwork Design Services for Temporary Construction Site Banners
Metro Art invites visual artists and artist teams to submit their qualifications for an opportunity to design four (4) original, site-responsive artworks for large-scale temporary banners. Submit via SlideRoom by July 20, 5:00 pm (PDT) 11:59 pm (PDT).
2022 Artist Pool for Digital Media Opportunities
Launched in 2022, the inaugural Metro Art: Digital Shorts series showcases video art and animation on large-format, digital screen arrays at 7th St/Metro Center and Hollywood/ Highland Stations. This new moving image art program is for riders provides a visual interlude between Metro informational content and advertising on the screens, and is one example of an opportunity available to artists who apply to the 2022 Artist Pool for Digital Media Opportunities. Request for Qualifications (RFQ) DEADLINE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 31 at 5:00 pm (PDT) 11:59 pm (PDT) WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 at 11:59 pm (PDT) via Slideroom In 2019, Metro introduced digital displays in rail stations that included dedicated space for public art. Since that time, public art programming opportunities on digital displays throughout the transit system has increased, enhancing these transit spaces with dynamic moving image art. Metro Art is now establishing the 2022 Artist Pool for Digital Media specifically for these specialized public art programming opportunities. Opportunity Metro Art invites artists and artist teams working in digital media to submit qualifications, including samples of completed original moving …
2022 Artist Pool for Digital Media Opportunities
Metro Art invites artists and artist teams working in digital media to apply to the 2022 Artist Pool for Digital Media Opportunities. DEADLINE: Wednesday 8/31 at 5:00 pm (PDT) 11:59 pm (PDT) Wednesday 9/14 at 11:59 pm (PDT)
We Are… Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists
Celebrating the diversity of Los Angeles County and the community of transit riders, We Are…Portraits of Metro Riders by Local Artists is an exhibition featuring 41 portraits presented throughout the Metro system and online.
Canoga Park
Artist Sevag Mahserejian draws inspiration from the unaltered natural landscapes of Canoga Park and their relationship to the built environment in In What was here once before, an artwork created for the Through the Eyes of Artists poster series on display in the fleet.
Commerce
In her photograph, Yardas, Sandra de la Loza depicts moments of vibrancy in a land of contrasts, where heavy industry meets small residential enclaves.
Downey
Downey’s unique vintage charm and post-World War II industrialization is captured through the combination of muted and vibrant colors, as the artist interposes historic landmarks with railroad crossings and power lines.
Malibu Bluffs Open Space
The sublime experience of a wild, open space where mountains meet the sea and humans harmonize with nature is captured in this intricate line drawing.
Temple City
This imagined bookshelf holds mementos of the lives, history, architecture and spirit of the city. An unmarked book represents the stories still to come.
we bear the fruit of our ancestors
Artists Kuniharu Yoshida and Susu Attar, along with the Japanese American Cultural & Community Center (JACCC) and Metro Art, designed temporary construction banners for the Metro Center Project site.