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Robbert Flick, artist
Along WILSHIRE, looking North (from Grand to Mariposa)

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Artist Robbert Flick presents a series of photographs titled, along WILSHIRE, looking North (from Grand to Mariposa). For the series, Flick painstakingly recorded each northern building facade on Wilshire from downtown to just beyond Western during one day: July 10, 1997. These images generally trace the route of the Metro Red (A) Line on Wilshire and become a frozen record of the neighborhood under which the trains run. Flick then combines these color images in grids, one image visually tied to the next, as our eyes move along the route. The result is a remarkable documentation of a neighborhood and a seemingly endless amount of information to contemplate.

“This work is part of a long term project that deals with the extended visual documentation of Los Angeles where I trace routes through the Southern California cityscape in an effort to make visible what the singular frame does not.”

ROBBERT FLICK is represented by Rose Gallery in Santa Monica and Robert Mann Gallery in New York. Recent exhibitions include The Collectible Moment at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA and Robbert Flick: Trajectories at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Flick is the recipient of numerous awards including a Guggenheim Fellowship, two National Endowment for the Arts Individual Artist Fellowships, a Ford Foundation Faculty Enrichment Grant and a Flintridge Foundation Award. Robbert Flick is Professor of Photography at the University of Southern California Roski School Of Fine Arts.