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May 2010

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Friday, May 7, 2010 – Valley Gateways

NoHo Gateway by LA artist Peter Shire, 2009, Lankershim and Huston Street, North Hollywood

Granted, North Hollywood is a strange place, with its NoHo Arts District with all the professional theaters and art galleries and professional dance studios, and the largest concentration of music recording venues west of the Mississippi. And North Hollywood is home to the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. But it's still just another scruffy Los Angeles suburb in the flat, hot and dusty San Fernando Valley, where the American Dream went to die in some combination of boredom and despair – it’s not Hollywood at all.

But they try. At the intersection of Lankershim and Huston Street they added this, the NoHo Gateway by LA artist Peter Shire. It's playful in a workmanlike kind of way and, obviously, promotional – this is civic art, after all. The NoHo Arts Council said the goal of the installation was to improve the street's appeal, so we're not talking high concept. What you get is a bit of Mirσ and a bit of Alexander Calder and a bit of Valley Girls and Fast Times at Ridgemont High – filmed nearby – and references to movies, television and theaters and such. It'll do.

NoHo Gateway by LA artist Peter Shire, 2009, Lankershim and Huston Street, North Hollywood
NoHo Gateway by LA artist Peter Shire, 2009, Lankershim and Huston Street, North Hollywood
NoHo Gateway by LA artist Peter Shire, 2009, Lankershim and Huston Street, North Hollywood
NoHo Gateway by LA artist Peter Shire, 2009, Lankershim and Huston Street, North Hollywood
NoHo Gateway by LA artist Peter Shire, 2009, Lankershim and Huston Street, North Hollywood
NoHo Gateway by LA artist Peter Shire, 2009, Lankershim and Huston Street, North Hollywood

Maybe this is more appropriate to the San Fernando Valley, an unattributed Aztec panel on the Barkley Professional Building, on the northwest corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Weddington Street, between Magnolia and Chandler Boulevard –

Unattributed Aztec panel on the Barkley Professional Building, on the northwest corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Weddington Street, between Magnolia and Chandler Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley
Unattributed Aztec panel on the Barkley Professional Building, on the northwest corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Weddington Street, between Magnolia and Chandler Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley
Unattributed Aztec panel on the Barkley Professional Building, on the northwest corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Weddington Street, between Magnolia and Chandler Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley
Unattributed Aztec panel on the Barkley Professional Building, on the northwest corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Weddington Street, between Magnolia and Chandler Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley
Unattributed Aztec panel on the Barkley Professional Building, on the northwest corner of Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Weddington Street, between Magnolia and Chandler Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley

A bit of visual irony across the street –

Psychic shop, and artist materials, Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Weddington Street, San Fernando Valley

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Technical Note:

These photographs were taken with a Nikon D200 – the lenses used were AF-S Nikkor 18-70 mm 1:35-4.5G ED, or AF Nikkor 70-300 mm telephoto. The high-resolution photography here was modified for web posting using Adobe Photoshop 7.0 software.

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