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William Leavitt, oil painter, does William Pereira, architect. Every trip to LAX isn’t complete without the Theme Restaurant. The painting is on display at MOCA, Downtown LA, until July 3, 2011.
Times’ art critic Christopher Knight writes on artist William Leavitt that he “renders the familiar civic and, more often, domestic landscape of post-war L.A., which is dominated by a modest, scrappy, relentlessly future-oriented sense of architectural optimism. All the same, what marks his work is a profound sense of estrangement. Neither antagonistic nor rancorous, it pushes familiarity aside in ways that make us see the world anew.”
Photo: William Leavitt, “Theme Restaurant,” 1986, oil on canvas. Credit: MOCA
(Source: Los Angeles Times)
