Five exhibitions from January until into the summer, some of it concerning the FINDING CHINATOWN project and others involved with my overall portfolio work. See my May post on my other blog, SARA JANE BOYERS ALOUD
Of course, the most wonderful was to have my images of the centarian artist (now 102) Tyrus Wong, and his kites - one framed composition and a flip-book - included in Sonia Mak's terrific Getty Pacific Standard Time (PST) exhibition and accompanying catalogue: 'ROUND THE CLOCK: CHINESE AMERICAN ARTISTS WORKING IN LA at the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles City College http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2012/03/pacific-standard-time-vincent-price-art-museum.html
The show was simply terrific and Tyrus' work - both his "commercial" animation and film design and his distinctive paintings - simply shone.
And now, even better news for Tyrus. To come in following post!
In Spring, again the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs again requested and published several of my photographs of Los Angeles' downtown Chinatown in the Asian and Pacific Islander American Hertage Month Calendar & Cultural Guide.
All the while, new themes from this extensive body of work - now over 12 years - present themselves to me and I look again at the project. Here: a light, no pun intended, but intriguing one: the color of the Chinatowns brought about so often by the choice of the lights for illumination used, in this case, fluorescence and the often naked blub:
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