The bumper loose, the paint damaged, the rear dented – the luxury car in George Byrne’s pigment print ‘Cadillac Venice Blvd. 2025’ tells of once glamorous times. The Australian-born artist has also dedicated himself to his adopted home of Los Angeles in his pictures. As a photographer, he captures everything at the same time – the glowing magic, the glaring artificiality, and the realism behind the backdrop of this city.
Specifically, the following initiatives will be supported with the proceeds of this edition:
- Grief and Hope Los Angeles – a fundraising organisation in which volunteers are committed to helping artists who have been particularly hard hit by the consequences of the fires.
- Immersive Art Collective – an initiative that provides creative artists with a place to stay, materials and storage facilities as well as space for fundraising events in Downtown Los Angeles.
- Formosa Fire Relief – a community-based initiative working with other non-profit organisations to raise both material donations and funds to support the victims of the fires in all important ways.
50 signed copies of this photograph will be sold from today at a special price of 300 Euros via www.artflash.de in aid of affected artists.
Australian-born George Byrne (*1976 in Sydney) moved to Los Angeles in 2010 and made the „City of Angeles“ the centre of his artistic work. Inspired by the New Topographic Movement and photographers such as Robert Adams, Stephen Shore and William Eggleston, but also by painters such as Ed Ruscha and Richard Diebenkorn, he captures urban landscapes in large-format photographs. Byrne transforms everyday structures – house facades, shadows cast against the ever-blue sky or road markings – into painterly abstractions with impressive clarity and colour composition.
Byrne studied at the Sydney College of the Arts. He made his international breakthrough in 2016 with his series „Local Division“ and was honoured as Minimalist Photographer of the Year in 2020.