los angeles CALIFORNIA

“Building Portraits” is a suite of elevation studies developed by Atelier Manferdini during the past 2 years for the Art Institute of Chicago and for Industry Gallery in Los Angeles.

exhibition: Atelier Manferdini, “Building Portraits.”
Saturday, 01/30 (opening)
6.00 p.m. / Industry Gallery Downtown LA
801 E 7th St. #301
Los Angeles, CA 90021

These drawings explore the potential of intricate scripted line work at the scale of building facades. The collection exists simultaneously as architectural research and as autonomous artwork, and tests ideas of shape vs form, ground vs figure, patterns vs coloration, orientation vs posture