The Kids Get Out of The Picture Los Angeles

Location
Los Angeles, CA

Year
2016

Status
Complete

Project Lead
Alexander Porter
Morgan Starkey

Project Team
Israel Ceja
Anthony Chu
Chuck Diep
Ciro Dimson
Tidus Dimson
Kenji Hattori
Sam Hoch
David Saldin
Tim Smith
Phillip Soderlind
Darryl Weimer
Erin Wright
Trenman Yau

The Kid Gets out of the Picture” is a sequel to a contemporary English picturesque garden set inside the interior courtyard of Materials & Applications in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles.

Exploring William Gilpin’s picturesque travel sketches from the late eighteenth century, the LADG appropriated the organizational logic of his drawings, which frequently depict dense, heterogeneous collections of rocks and plants. These “clumps” consolidate together as a single entity regardless of the diversity of their constituent parts, creating a material landscape that is both continuously variable and continuously navigable.

The installation was made in collaboration with Materials & Applications, First Office, Hirsuta, and Laurel Broughton / Andrew Kovacs. The project was made possible in part by the generous support of the Graham Foundation.