Vacationing on the West Coast

First full day in LA; we got up this morning all set to go see 187 paintings by David Amico at the ACE Gallery, only to find out he was not in fact showing there. Rats!

So we made a new plan to go to the MOCA downtown.

As it happened, they were in the process of installing a new show, so they only had a couple of rooms of art to view.

Some pretty cool stuff...fabulous sculptures and drawings by LA artist Matthew Monahan. His sculptures are conglomerations of all sorts of materials, including sheetrock and wax. My favorite, though, were the heads he so beautifully drew and then folded into head shapes, sort of like origami, then place in the head position on top of other sculptural material -- very beautifully done! As you walked around a piece, the drawn eyes would follow you from their folded paper position.

The photo above is a sculpture outdoors at the MOCA, complete with birdseed and usually several live birds (and bird poop).