"Positively 4th Street: An Encounter with Los Angeles 4th Street Viaduct"
Opening Reception
Date: January 27, 2018Time: 3:00pm to 6:00pm
Location: Don B. Huntley Gallery
Event Info
Date/Time:
Opening Reception: January 27, 2018 - 3-6pm
Exhibition: January 27 - April 12, 2018
Location:
Don B. Huntley Gallery
Check out the Gallery Exhibition Below.
Gallery Exhibition | "Positively Fourth Street"
About the Exhibition
"Positively 4th Street: An Encounter with Los Angeles 4th Street Viaduct" features the drawings, paintings, and text of Roderick Smith, Richard Willson, and DJ Waldie at the Don B. Huntley Gallery.
Caught between Los Angeles’ past and future, the Fourth Street Viaduct of 1931 is an enduring artifact in an area of enormous flux. Bridging the Los Angeles River, it spans railroad tracks and industry, almost half a mile in length. Its grandiose Gothic Revival architecture contrasts with the unadorned flood-control channel beneath it. As Angelenos debate river revitalization and the gentrification of Boyle Heights and the Arts District, the viaduct is a stoic artifact. Yet, at the same time, it leaps and vaults.
We are two visual artists and a writer-artist whose interpretations are based on a shared instinct for poetic realism. Recognizing what the viaduct meant to the civic leaders who built it, we accept the pathos of that past but seek reconciliation with what is now ours. The viaduct revealed its iconic symbols and meanings as we explored. The light stanchions, for example, still have insulators for wires that powered streetcars, some of which were “coffin trolleys” delivering mourners and the dead to Evergreen Cemetery.