This entry is recorded by Julie Maguire, Green Box Board Advisor, Visual Art & Director, Brett Weston Archive
A note: This piece is on private property, and is to be viewed via the street. Please be respectful.
Faime Walking
Julian Opie (b. 1958, London)
2018 LED double sided monolith
82 ½ x 47 ¼ x 12 inches
* Opie went to Goldsmiths College in London
* The artist has an obsession with technology and the human body. Technology can be anything, pencil and paper to computers
* He began working on painted metal sculptures, and then moved into making LED sculptures in 2007
* We see because of light, essential to take it for granted to function, but having awareness of looking is also important
More information: Using bold colors and distinctive lines, Julian Opie creates works across media that distill people, animals, landscapes and objects to their most elemental forms. The influences of Pop Art and Japanese woodblock prints can be seen in the playful color palettes and simplified lines of his fun, iconic portraits of people in motion and at rest. Opie’s works are part of significant museum collections around the world and have been included in public art installations from Indianapolis to Tokyo. The artist lives and works in London.