If you've not yet taken the time to visit the newest exhibit in West's Gallery, I encourage you to run, not walk to see one of the most visually compelling, provocative exhibits that we've had in the Gallery.
Entitled "Fire in the Sky," the exhibit focuses on "airborne" structures, objects, and events that have caused fear, hope, or panic in the past several decades. "The Bomb," for example, is a full-scale rendition of "Fat Man"--the second atomic bomb, detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki in August 1945. "The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!" is a doppelganger stainless steel reconstruction of the world's first orbiting satellite that marked the beginning of the U.S. -Soviet cold war. At the local level, "The Battle of Los Angeles," a series of abstract paintings, references the controversial February 1942 "Great Los Angeles Air Raid."
The most monumental piece in the exhibit is "Kill Time."
According to the artist, "the installation presents nine boxed 46-inch-diameter, metal-flaked fiberglass discs whose motif is military aircraft insignias from the beginning of war-related aviation to the present and makes light of the war games aspect of it all."
The gallery is open Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
Entitled "Fire in the Sky," the exhibit focuses on "airborne" structures, objects, and events that have caused fear, hope, or panic in the past several decades. "The Bomb," for example, is a full-scale rendition of "Fat Man"--the second atomic bomb, detonated over the Japanese city of Nagasaki in August 1945. "The Russians are coming! The Russians are coming!" is a doppelganger stainless steel reconstruction of the world's first orbiting satellite that marked the beginning of the U.S. -Soviet cold war. At the local level, "The Battle of Los Angeles," a series of abstract paintings, references the controversial February 1942 "Great Los Angeles Air Raid."
The most monumental piece in the exhibit is "Kill Time."
According to the artist, "the installation presents nine boxed 46-inch-diameter, metal-flaked fiberglass discs whose motif is military aircraft insignias from the beginning of war-related aviation to the present and makes light of the war games aspect of it all."
The gallery is open Monday through Thursday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m.