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