ALL IMAGES: ©KATHERINE MCMAHON
Los Angeles is all the rage at the moment. Last September, megacollector Eli Broad opened his $140 million private museum on Grand Avenue; the shiny Diller Scofidio + Renfro building is open free of charge and has had lines around the block. That same month, New York’s Maccarone gallery inaugurated a big space near L.A.’s downtown arts district with a show of Alex Hubbard. Berlin and London’s Sprüth Magers is expanding to Wilshire Boulevard, across from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. And March brings the big kahuna: Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, a new branch of the London-, Somerset-, New York-, and Zurich-based Hauser & Wirth gallery, will open downtown in a converted flour mill. At 100,000 square feet, it’s on the scale of a museum.
For our Icons issue, we took a look at L.A., that iconic American city, through the lens of some of its many artists’ studios, visiting 16 people of different generations. Over the next 16 weeks, each of those studios will be featured on the site—one per week. Below, a photo preview of what is to come, and below that, the complete lineup of artists.
01
The opening layout of Habitat L.A. from the Spring 2016 issue of ARTnews. Clockwise from top left: David Hockney and his studio, Diana Thater and her studio, Ed Ruscha and his studio, Catherine Opie and her studio.
ALL IMAGES: ©KATHERINE MCMAHON
A layout of Habitat L.A. from the Spring 2016 issue of ARTnews. Clockwise from top left: Mary Weatherford in her studio, Thomas Houseago in his studio, Henry Taylor and his studio, Jim Shaw and his studio.
ALL IMAGES: ©KATHERINE MCMAHON
A layout of Habitat L.A. from the Spring 2016 issue of ARTnews. Clockwise from top left: Kaari Upson and her studio, Amanda Ross-Ho in her studio, Enrique Martinez Celaya and his studio, Liz Larner in her studio.
ALL IMAGES: ©KATHERINE MCMAHON
A layout of Habitat L.A. from the Spring 2016 issue of ARTnews. Clockwise from top left: Lili Bernard in her studio, Lara Schnitger in her studio, Elad Lassry and his studio, Samara Golden and her studio.
ALL IMAGES: ©KATHERINE MCMAHON
The artists: