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Sandow Birk, 'Los Angeles County Museum on Fire (after Ed Ruscha)'
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Artist Sandow Birk
Los Angeles artist Sandow Birk is a well traveled graduate of the Otis/Parson's Art Institute. Frequently developed as expansive, multi-media projects, his works have dealt with contemporary life in its entirety. With an emphasis on social issues, frequent themes of his past work have included inner city violence, graffiti, political issues, travel, war, and prisons, as well as surfing and skateboarding. He was a recipient of an NEA International Travel Grant to Mexico City in 1995 to study mural painting, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1996, and a Fulbright Fellowship for painting to Rio de Janeiro for 1997. In 1999 he was awarded a Getty Fellowship for painting, followed by a City of Los Angeles (COLA) Fellowship in 2001. In 2007 he was an artist in residence at the Smithsonian Institute in Washington, DC, and at the Cité Internationale des Arts in Paris in 2008. His most recent project involves a consideration of the Qur’an as relevant to contemporary life in America.
Sandow is represented by the Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Seattle, Catharine Clark Gallery in San Francisco, and Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles. Birk's website.
“This is great work for this time. It’s crude and violent, but done in the service of portraying the greed and brutality of its era.” - Julie Friedman, Hyperallergic
“Birk has got at the parts of L.A. that recall Piranesi, not David Hockney, the sinister noir terrain of freeway overpasses and cuttings and drainage ditches that create a stacked-up, tangled vertical landscape far from the flat, sunshiny L.A. of the usual iconography.” - London Review of Books
Sandow Birk's epic original painting 'Los Angeles County Museum on Fire (after Ed Ruscha)',
2022, 48 in. x 120 in. is available at Track 16 Gallery in Los Angeles.