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American Art Catalogues presents Peter Cain: The Los Angeles Photographs, an exhibition of drawings, photographs, and painting created in 1996 shortly before the artist’s death. This is the artist’s first show in New York in ten years. The exhibition is supported by a catalogue featuring the entire series of photographs.
The Los Angeles Photographs, a group of 98 images from 1996, is one of Peter Cain’s final artworks. Taken across West Hollywood, Glendale, and Burbank, they capture the feeling of driving through LA at that time: anonymous mini malls, gas stations seemingly everywhere, grand opening flags flapping in the wind, a mountain range looming in the distance. Though thirty years have passed and many of these businesses are gone, a handful of locations remain untouched. In the images, Cain seems to fixate on the easily overlooked details like carefully planted perennials underneath a 7-Eleven sign or unintentionally poignant signage at the gas station that says “self.”
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American Art Catalogues presents Peter Cain: The Los Angeles Photographs, an exhibition of drawings, photographs, and painting created in 1996 shortly before the artist’s death. This is the artist’s first show in New York in ten years. The exhibition is supported by a catalogue featuring the entire series of photographs.
The Los Angeles Photographs, a group of 98 images from 1996, is one of Peter Cain’s final artworks. Taken across West Hollywood, Glendale, and Burbank, they capture the feeling of driving through LA at that time: anonymous mini malls, gas stations seemingly everywhere, grand opening flags flapping in the wind, a mountain range looming in the distance. Though thirty years have passed and many of these businesses are gone, a handful of locations remain untouched. In the images, Cain seems to fixate on the easily overlooked details like carefully planted perennials underneath a 7-Eleven sign or unintentionally poignant signage at the gas station that says “self.”
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