joshua vides turns the petersen into a drawn garage
At the Petersen Automotive Museum in LA, Joshua Vides has turned a gallery of cars into a walk-in black-and-white drawing.
The Los Angeles-based artist’s exhibition, Flat Out: The Art of Joshua Vides, takes over the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery with five hand-painted vehicles, tire stacks, gas pumps, wall graphics, and oversized garage signage, all rendered in his crisp monochrome linework.
The space reads at first like an auto body shop stripped of color. A sign for Vides Auto Body hangs above an arched opening, checkered flags run across the ceiling, and a blunt NO PARKING graphic stretches across the wall.
The familiar objects of car...
