Mural Wall, Venice - 4 Sizes
Location: Venice, Los Angeles, California
"This image began with a negative I shot not long after arriving in Los Angeles around 2013. I hadn’t revisited the roll of film in years, but recently it felt like the right time to bring it to life. The old redwood mural, faded and peeling, always struck me as quietly beautiful, a surrogate forest etched onto stucco. The straight palm tree cutting through the frame provided a perfect anchor, and the combination became the seed of this piece. It captures my ongoing fascination with how Los Angeles layers artifice and nature, dreamscape and decay, into something unique and mesmerizing." - 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.