The Movies: Fantasies and Spectacles (1993)
Joyce Kozloff
DESCRIPTION: station art consisting of two 2-foot by 110-foot hand-painted ceramic tile murals in 10-foot sections or "chapters"
Kozloff's two companion murals present classic Hollywood film and television images. Together they are one of the most popular public artworks in the Los Angeles Metro System.
Kozloff's two companion murals present classic Hollywood film and television images. Together they are one of the most popular public artworks in the Los Angeles Metro System.
- The "Fantasies" mural on the west platform depicts scenes from science fiction and horror films, where one finds familiar and bizarre monsters, reptiles, apes, plants, insects, ghosts, vampires, robots, zombies and spacemen.
- The "Spectacles" mural on the east platform follows themes of water, fire, air and earth, and with the concepts of space and time.
LOCATION: interior (underground) station platforms:west platform: The Movies: Fantasieseast platform: The Movies: Spectacles
7th Street/Metro Center Station, Metro B Line (Red), 660 S. Figueroa Street, Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California, USA
7th Street/Metro Center Station, Metro B Line (Red), 660 S. Figueroa Street, Bunker Hill, Los Angeles, California, USA
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