Seen with irony and dry wit, Pat O’Neill's photographs of automobiles, billboards, storefronts, torn posters, graffiti and car junkyards provide a fresh and often humorous window into 1960s car culture. Best known as a pioneer of experimental cinema in the 1960s and 70s, O’Neill was known for his layered cinematic printing techniques, radically transforming film imagery in anticipation of the digital era, and evoking an expanded sense of memory, time and space. Now, for the first time ever, we see a selection of the still photographs that formed the basis for O’Neill’s cinematic oeuvre.

A native of Los Angeles, the spiritual homeland of the motor vehicle, O'Neill found his enigmatic images across the paved metropolitan wastelands of his own city, and on cross-country road trips. Revealing a palpable discontent beneath the surface of the nation's brave new image, these photographs stand alone as insightful visions of the mid-twentieth century urban landscape, designed for, and scaled to, the automobile.

O’Neill studied painting, sculpture and graphic arts including photography and film at the University of California, Los Angeles, in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Digitally remastered and printed under the artist's supervision, these highly enjoyable photographs address educational issues including the American dream, consumerism, travel and leisure.

WORKS
30 photographs; 1 video

DIMENSIONS
20 × 24 ins (50 × 60 cm)

SPACE REQUIREMENTS
120 linear feet (10 linear meters)

INQUIRIES
exhibitions@curatorial.org | 626.577.0044

FEE
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