In Iconic Abstractions artist Jody Zellen celebrates Inglewood’s architecture with graphic silhouettes of iconic design features. The artist selected photographs from the Inglewood Public Art web pages then digitally manipulated the images, mirroring and repositioning them to create graphically bold silhouettes. The resulting eleven laser-cut stainless steel works were designed for and installed within the lunettes on the north and east sides of the Library.

Zellen’s architectural sources are the Academy Theater, Cafeteles Restaurant, Debbe’s Cleaners, The Forum, Hollywood Park Casino, Inglewood City Hall, Inglewood Park Cemetery, Inglewood War Memorial, Jet Car Wash, Randy’s Donuts and Rudolph Schindler’s speculation residences.

Jody Zellen is a Los Angeles artist using media-generated representations as raw material she explores place and society. She works in interactive installations, net art, animations, drawings, paintings, photographs, public art, and artists’ books. She works internationally with notable interactive projects including pieces at at Pace University in New York City, Disseny Hub Museum in Barcelona, Spain, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Her public art has been commissioned for the LA Metro, the UCLA Santa Monica Hospital and West Valley Police Station in Reseda, CA.

Date: 2016
Collection: City of Inglewood Permanent Public Art Projects
Medium: Public Art Treatment
Material: Brushed stainless steel
Size: 11 works, each approx. 18″ x 90”

Location:
Crenshaw-Imperial Library
11141 Crenshaw Boulevard
Inglewood, California 90303