Art for the Wilshire/Fairfax Metro
Ken Gonzales-Day, Urban Excavation: Ancestors, Avatars, Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, Casts, Copies, Deities, Figures, Funerary Objects, Gods, Guardians, Mermaids, Metaphors, Mothers, Possessions, Sages, Spirits, Symbols, and Other Objects (detail), 2026 Los Angeles has its share of mortifyingly bad public transit art. But maybe that's changing. Opening May 8th in Museum Row, the Wilshire/Fairfax Metro station will feature commissions by Ken Gonzales-Day, Karl Haendel, and Susan Silton. All are serious L.A. artists with the ability to speak outside the art world bubble. The subway stop opens four days after the Geffen Galleries did, and Gonzalez-Day's Urban Excavation… will offer a sampler of LACMA's post-colonial encyclopedia. The piece is glass tile, a medium now capable of rendering durable photographic images at civic scale. Karl Haendel, Hands and Things , 2026 Handel likewise uses glass tile to picture hands holding items representative of the Academy Museum, the t...
