This April, Rodney Boone's studio announces a season of emergence, opening its doors on three distinct occasions to present new and ongoing work. Situated within the Los Angeles Harbor Arts Building, the studio serves as a site for discovery, offering an intimate encounter with the artist's evolving practice.

We invite you to save these dates for a rare opportunity to experience the debut of two new bodies of work, alongside the continuation of a singular series.

SAVE THE DATEs

Choose your own adventure: join us for one, two, or all three of these unique open studio events:

   San Pedro First Thursday
April 2nd | 6:00pm – 9:00pm

    San Pedro’s Second Saturday
April 11th | 12:00pm – 4:00pm

Arts Open
April 25th & 26th | 1:00pm – 5:00pm

Rodney Boone’s Studio
Los Angeles Harbor Arts Building
401 S. Mesa Street, San Pedro 90732

NEW WORK: The other night at the opera

Step into the dramatic interplay of light and shadow. During a 2025 residency in Los Angeles, Boone found inspiration in a rare 1960 edition of The Magic of the Opera, featuring the striking photography of Gjon Mili, a master known for capturing dynamic action and innovative light.

Boone has transformed these historic, black-and-white images of the original Metropolitan Opera House into a series of compelling collages. By reanimating the choreographed drama behind the curtain, he sustains the grandeur of the stage while forging something entirely new.

DEBUT: Casual Eugenics

This striking new collage suite recontextualizes portraits by reimagining them. Comprising several images, Casual Eugenics draws from 19th-century cartes de visites, cabinet cards, and charcoal portraits to deconstruct anonymous personages and recast the very definition of identity through the repurposing of vintage detritus.

CONTINUATION: Improbable Landscapes

Boone continues his 2025 exploration into the beautiful oddities of European Medieval and Renaissance paintings. Focusing on the strange light and illogical geology of that era, this ongoing series captures the patently peculiar beauty of the past, transforming it through collage into scenes that feel both ancient and surreal.

We hope you will join us to explore these new narratives in person. Whether you come for the energy of First Thursday, the relaxed pace of Second Saturday, or the immersive weekend of Arts Open, we look forward to welcoming you.

On Site/26 at Los Angeles Harbor Arts

A selection of Rodney Boone’s photographs will be featured in the group exhibition On Site/26 at LAHA with an artists' reception on Saturday, January 10th from 1:00 to 4:00 PM. The exhibition, showcasing 13 artists from the LAHA studios, will be on view at Los Angeles Harbor Arts, 401 South Mesa Street, San Pedro, CA, and will run through March 15th.

The photographs are located on the first-floor gallery and the upstairs gallery. Each of these photographs, except one, stems from a single day of street shooting in June of 2014 in the Bushwick neighborhood of Brooklyn, NY. Boone’s artworks, even in those days, reflected his collage-like sensibility. They are photographs of walls once activated by other artists, images of exterior surfaces capturing graffiti, wheat paste, or simply the weather interacting with a surface, sometimes a combination of all. The photos are the documentation of what once lived on those walls; they capture a moment in time. These places in the city were ephemeral; they were often quickly replaced by more graffiti, more paste, or were painted over by the city, only to present themselves, once again, as clean canvases for the street artist. These early photographic compositions echo Rodney Boone’s current collage practice. In this series, one can see how his photography, even at this distant time, moved him towards his eventual focus on collage.

The Studio will also feature 12 prints from this series, A Bushwick Moment, presented for the first time as a collection. It offers a deeper insight into what captivated Boone on the streets of Brooklyn that one day in 2014.

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RESIDENCY & EXHIBITION RECAP

Rodney Boone has recently completed a one-week collage residency hosted by Contemporary Collage Magazine in the Arts District of Downtown Los Angeles. In that intensive period, Boone immersed himself in non-narrative work, utilizing found and scavenged paper fragments stripped from city walls. Below is a preview of the work produced during this immersive week.

Print Feature: Peninsula Magazine article by Bondo Wyszpolski  | Read the full article here: READ ARTICLE HERE

Video: An in-depth studio interview by Discover San Pedro | Watch the interview here: LINK TO VIDEO INTERVIEW