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Doug Aitken: Psychic Debris Field
Regen Projects, Los Angeles
January 18 – February 22, 2025
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Doug Aitken: Lightscape
The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
December 17, 2024 - March 15, 2025
In Psychic Debris Field, Aitken sets forth a poly-media composition of artworks that create a narrative which explores the juxtaposition of deep ecological history within our landscape and contemporary habitation. The artworks create a fever-dream interpretation of our landscape ranging from large-scale sculptures created from urban debris, light and sound installations, botanic artworks, and fabric works that seamlessly combine these mediums.
At the show’s entrance, viewers are greeted by P-22 (2024), a larger-than-life sculptural form of the famed wild western mountain lion which resided majestically in the Hollywood Hills for many years. The sculpture is made entirely out of foraged materials found within the urban landscape. These include microplastics washed up on the Pacific Coast, discarded freeway rubber repurposing used tires, composted seeds, and organic matter. Over eighty materials are compressed into strata to form the likeness of the mountain lion and condense it into a contemporary vessel comprised of the landscape around us.
more at: https://www.regenprojects.com/
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Lightscape is a multimedia artwork created by artist Doug Aitken in collaboration with the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Lightscape is a shapeshifting act of contemporary storytelling that unfolds in various stages.
more at: https://marcianoartfoundation.org/
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Doug Aitken (b. 1968, Redondo Beach, CA) studied at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, where he received his BFA in 1991. Doug Aitken is an American artist and filmmaker. Defying definitions of genre, he explores every medium, from film and installations to architectural interventions.
More at: https://www.dougaitkenworkshop.com/
