The City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division will debut a new art installation titled LightWave by Jessica Goehring on April 17, 2023 at the West Hollywood Park Aquatic & Recreation Center, located at 8750 El Tovar Place. The art installation will run through January 23, 2024.
LightWave is a kinetic artwork that pays homage to the California Light and Space Movement and is comprised of two layers, together creating a geometric aesthetic. The artwork features a rainbow-hued abstract image digitally printed on aluminum, partially covered with color coated aluminum chain links printed with the same image. The combined double image plays with perspective resulting in a holographic quality, like the effect of lenticular photography in a sculptural form. The hanging chain screen is atmospheric, allowing for movement of the secondary layer.
Jessica Goehring lives and works in Los Angeles. Goehring’s practice explores the digital world through artworks that are both acidic and humorous, combining personal narratives, art historical references, and internet culture. Goehring has merged her love of painting and photography into digital works that are kinetic in nature. Drawing inspiration from the California Light & Space Movement, Goehring merges digital technologies with analog media creating holographic artworks that activate the space they are displayed in. She studied photography at the School of the Visual Arts in Manhattan, NY. Her most recent exhibitions include Epoch Gallery, Spring/Break LA Art Fair, Durden and Ray, and IDOLWILD.
The City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division delivers a broad array of arts programs including Art on the Outside (temporary public art), City Poet Laureate, Drag Queen Story Hour, Free Theatre in the Parks, Grants, Holiday Programming, Human Rights Speaker Series, Library Exhibits, National Poetry Month, WeHo Pride Arts Festival (formerly called One City One Pride Arts Festival), Summer Sounds + Winter Sounds, Urban Art (permanent public art), and WeHo Reads. For more information about City of West Hollywood arts programming, please visit www.weho.org/arts.
For more information about LightWave, please visit contact Marcus Mitchell, the City of West Hollywood’s Public Art Administrator, at (323) 848-3122 or at mmitchell@weho.org. For people who are Deaf or hard of hearing, please call TTY (323) 848-6496.
Jessica Goehring’s masterpiece, LightWave, gracing the West Hollywood Park Aquatic & Recreation Center, is a visual symphony that holds the promise of transforming the cityscape. As an art creator merging digital and tangible realms, I’m spellbound by Goehring’s mastery. And I usually find useful reference here, when I need help with writing. Kudos to West Hollywood for nurturing such vibrant creative blooms!
No city should have an Arts Division. Taxpayers should not be funding the artistic preferences of a few unaccomplished small town politicians.
Every town should have an Arts Division just as every town should have a library. Art is Freedom of Expression and adds to the civic landscape just like trees and flowers. If you don’t like it, you have your first amendment right to express your distaste just as you are doing here.
Every world class city is a destination BECAUSE of their museums, arts, architecture….
I can’t imagine how boring a place would be without funding for the arts.
Thankful that most people disagree with you!