Urban Light - Los Angeles, CA
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N 34° 03.783 W 118° 21.553
11S E 374567 N 3769980
A fairly new edition to the Los Angeles County Art Museum.
Waymark Code: WMQXDK
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/10/2016
Views: 6
Taken from Wikipedia, "Urban Light (2008) is a large-scale assemblage sculpture by Chris Burden located at the Wilshire Boulevard entrance to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The installation consists of 202 restored street lamps from the 1920s and 1930s. Most of them once lit the streets of Southern California.
The cast iron street lamps are of 17 styles, which vary depending on the municipality that commissioned them. They range from about 20 to 30 feet (6 to 9 meters), are painted a uniform gray and placed, forest-like, in a near grid. The lights are solar powered and switched on at dusk. Writing in the Los Angeles Times, Susan Freudenheim described the restored lamps as displaying "elaborate floral and geometric patterns" at the base, with "fluted shafts and glass globes that cap them...meticulously cleaned, painted and refurbished to create an exuberant glow."
Title: Urban Light
Artist: Christ Burden
Media (materials) used: restored cast-iron streetlamp
Location (specific park, transit center, library, etc.): LACMA
Date of creation or placement: 2008
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