A SENSE OF PLACE EXHIBIT HAS CLOSED.
In Dean Larson’s Ideal Estates an architectural sense of place is evoked where the search for home is idealized...a neighborhood of life both remembered and yearned for.
Bungalow #2, 2006
archival digital print
permanent collection of DMOA
Raymond Meeks work travels time and in each exquisite moment finds and evokes that magical feeling of place. In Sound of Summer Running a childhood sense of belonging to nature and to the world radiates in the landscape and embodies the true sense of place and meaning of life.
From Sound of Summer Running
Pumpkin Head
continuous tone silver print
permanent collection of DMOA
For Ara Oshagan, in ‘Traces of Identity’, the Armenian experience of Diaspora both searches and creates a sense of place here and nowhere. A sense of place that is perhaps as his father used to say ‘a state of mind’.
His photographs depict a community to which “he belongs that is both local and global in a constant and perpetual in-between state.”
From Traces of Identity
Family gathering, North Hollywood
2001
silver gelatin print
permanent collection of DMOA
Charles Villiers’ The Arbutus Project with its symbolic imagery seeks to question who am I in this place? As an artist with roots in both England and America, from parents both noted and rural, he seeks the intimate quest for true place that perhaps lies in identity. Can a deep sense of place be found in fame, or in geography, in the mystical or even simply in the work? Or as a traveler in life can it be found in the varied everyday signs of life?
From The Arbutus Project
Arbutus Self Portrait
2005
archival digital print
permanent collection of DMOA
In Metro, Jeff Marks work documents a moment in time when the Downtown L.A. art scene was born in the early 80’s ….a sense of place born of pioneer spirits, audacious personalities, searching to make their mark, a bond brought about by art. A sense of place that comes from within our personal expression as we meet up in a special place where time stands still in history for just a moment.
From Metro
Wanda Westcoast
1982 (2006 print)
archival digital print
permanent collection of DMOA