Roamings of a Leo: L.A. Louver's new David Hockney Painting and Photography

I drove down Venice Blvd to the beach on Thursday and visited L.A. Louver, my favorite gallery. It is just one short block from the beach on N. Venice Blvd. David Hockney's new work created over the past two years in his L.A. studio explore the relationship between painting and photography, the artist's interest in depicting perspective, as well as his fascination with using new technology to create images. (Information is from the gallery hand out.)

"Painters have always known there is something wrong with perspective. The problem is the foreground and the vanishing point...Well not now. Digital photography can free us from a chemically imposed perspective that has lasted for 180 years." David Hockney, 2015

At age 77, Hockney continues to experiment with technology to create images. The photographs in the exhibition, described by Hockney as "photographic drawings," are comprised of hundreds of images, all captured at close range and then the digital images are then seamlessly stitched together and enhanced to construct a single composition, but with multiple vanishing points. This process echoes Hockney's earlier photographic collages that used film prints such as "Pearblossom Hwy." seen in the background of some of his works.

The exhibit also includes paintings of his subjects. Painting allowed Hockney to determine subject and composition, and provided the visual understanding of how to frame each photograph.

Here are photos of some of his work taken from the gallery web site: