These are exquisite ink drawings that would be perfect for your home or office, created by an artist that is becoming highly collectable and, having been exhibited at and purchased from one of the most important architecturally focused galleries in the country, critical importance. .......and anyway, who doesn't love the iconic Theme Building at Los Angeles International Airport, completed in 1961!  

 

Constructed near the beginning of the Space Age, the building is an example of how aeronautics and pop culture, design and architecture came together in Los Angeles. The initial design was created by James Langenheim, of Pereira & Luckman, subsequently taken to fruition by a team of architects and engineers headed by William Pereira and Charles Luckman, that also included Paul Williams and Welton Becket.

 

 

Deborah Aschheim (b. 1964)

From the gallery press release September, 2010:
Edward Cella Art + Architecture announces a solo exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based artist, Deborah Aschheim.  Entitled Nostalgia for the Future, the exhibition presents Aschheim’s singular drawings and architectural installations of eccentric modernist landmarks of Southern California that embody a discourse about memory, place, and the unfulfilled promises of our future. Aschheim’s art reflects her passion for L.A.’s quirky modernist icons that are quickly vanishing in front of our eyes like treasured family members. These structures, formerly the symbols of Southern California’s utopian dreams, are now forlorn and crumbling commercial towers, buildings and centers.

 

To Aschheim, iconic post-war era architecture like the Capital Records Building or architect Peter J. Holdstock’s Fine Arts Building and Science Hall at Ambassador College in Pasadena, are for the most part treated as unacclaimed monuments of a distant era, a visual gulf between “then” and “now”. At the intersection of two worlds – the elusive, private space of memory and the contested space of bodies and the built environment – Aschheim attempts to inscribe the faded optimism and loss encoded in each building; suggesting her own changed relationship to time.