ISLANDS OF LA

Journey of an Artist: Installation by Clinton Bopp
I Was Here: Installation & Activity by Islands of LA
Untitled: Permanent Site Specific Installation by Act Up LA

What a cacophony of words - from business, government, religion, art, politics - we find plastered onto the concrete, glass, steel and asphalt. These mighty words create the place and time we live in. They are our city...and our city has learned.

The show, Right In Public, includes a permanent installation from Act Up/LA, a personal journey from an artist and a traffic island installed by Islands of LA that navigates the flow between those two works. There will also be an activity on March 9 in Highways and on a nearby traffic island. The show invites us to reconsider how we look at writing in public and the relationship of that to personal identity.

Journey of an Artist is Clinton Bopp’s personal journey as an artist on the streets that originally came from New Zealand. The installation reflects his experience as a peripatetic artist working in a variety of mediums from graffiti writing to installation, culling the narratives of the people that surround him, New Zealands Maori culture to Los Angeles' street seen.

I Was Here is an installation and activity by Islands of LA, which is revitalizing public space by turning traffic islands into territories of art that generate cultural interchanges. This traffic island installation asks us to consider how we view and utilize public space and our habit of writing in public whether that be on a school desk, building or boulder in a forest.