Benny Chan has worked diligently over the past few years to photograph overhead views of Los Angeles freeways during the height of rush hour. Using a camera designed and manufactured exclusively for this project, Chan has taken pictures from high in the sky from a helicopter and has rendered monumental sized prints. With his almost omniscient perspective, Mr. Chan explores and sheds light on the conundrum of traffic as a symptom of a society being unable to keep pace withRead more
Month: March 2016
PMCA EXHIBITION
Showing at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, 5/30/09-9/20/09. Showing at the Wolfsonian in Miami, 10/16/09-1/21/10. In 2003, driving to my first Los Angeles gallery opening in Chinatown confronted by a massive traffic jam, I became nostalgic for the early nineties when I moved to Los Angeles from Hawaii and the streets were far less congested. Two weeks after the opening I was at lunch with the gallery owner and my curator and I told them how profoundly affected IRead more