LOS ANGELES: KIM STRINGFELLOW
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Kim Stringfellow is a photographer and media artist whose work examines the beauty of modern-day ruins. With a focus on the recent past, Stringfellow captures images with the precision of a CSI team investigating the demise of a landscape. Unpopulated but with presence, her images are evocations of the hopes and desires of the people who once inhabited these spaces. Vacant and deteriorating motel rooms, empty pools, rusted, motionless vehicles and sun-baked and littered sea sides speak to our collective aspirations and to our shared folly. Textured and tempered, Stringfellow’s photo essays are important documents in defining where we’ve been and possibly where we’re going.

Kim’s walking tour of downtown Los Angeles was a real architectural and cultural treat. Highlighting some of LA’s rich Art Deco past, Kim was able to synthesize some of the themes of her work to the surrounding former movie palaces which line LA’s once famous Broadway thoroughfare, home to the world’s largest collection of buildings of this kind.