sunset strip, los angeles

Sunset Strip: stills from video installation simultaneously running.

Bakalar & Paine Galleries (now MassArt Art Museum) 2015,

duration 18 min/loop, both sides of street merged

in editing– play simultaneously. Video embedded in podium, Sunset Strip

accordion book 1966 also installed, and panoramic photograph of Sunset Strip,

original artist book by Edward Ruscha, Courtesy Rotch Architecture, and Planning Library MIT, Cambridge MA

 

Historical Context:

Getty Archive:

https://12sunsets.getty.edu/map/narrative?mode=no-map&d=0.42256

Sebastian Smee:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/ed-ruscha-sunset-strip-getty/2021/01/07/5c14e6ba-4f89-11eb-bda4-615aaefd0555_story.html