Yellow Wall - 4 Sizes
Location: Los Angeles, California
"This piece is based on an old commercial building on La Brea that I’d noticed not long after moving to Los Angeles. I photographed it years ago and only came back to the material much later, reworking and layering elements to finally get the image to where I wanted it. For me, it’s one of those pieces about how a place sticks in your mind and evolves and elevates as you work on it. It’s also a visual note on what Hollywood felt like to me when I first moved here." - George Byrne
Byrne creates large scale photographs that depict architectural surfaces and landscapes as painterly abstractions. Borrowing from the clean, vivid clarity of modernist painting, he also references the New Topographics photography movement via a subject matter firmly entrenched in the urban everyday.
All works by the artist are printed with a slim white photo-paper border and framed in white with plexiglass.