Second Line (2021)
Jamex de la Torre and Einar de la Torre
DESCRIPTION: station art installation consisting of six 14-foot high by 14-foot diameter shade sculptures with painted stainless steel stencil-cut canopy panels incorporating 4-inch diameter colored blown glass insets
This sculptural installation for the Metro Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station displays images of Rosa Parks and symbols from the Civil Rights Movement in the stencil-cut canopies overhead. Installed in the plaza area north of the Rosa Parks Customer Center, they are accompanied by three 3-foot by 7-foot formed concrete sculptural benches with colored ceramic insets (Metro artist for sculptural benches is unlisted/unknown).
Artists' statement: “We’re very comfortable with the baroque and quite uninterested in minimalism.” MetroArt
This sculptural installation for the Metro Willowbrook/Rosa Parks Station displays images of Rosa Parks and symbols from the Civil Rights Movement in the stencil-cut canopies overhead. Installed in the plaza area north of the Rosa Parks Customer Center, they are accompanied by three 3-foot by 7-foot formed concrete sculptural benches with colored ceramic insets (Metro artist for sculptural benches is unlisted/unknown).
Artists' statement: “We’re very comfortable with the baroque and quite uninterested in minimalism.” MetroArt
LOCATION: plaza area, Metro Customer Service Center, 11680 Willowbrook Avenue, Willowbrook, Los Angeles, California, USA
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