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Seeking the Soul of L.A. on Its Streets - Paintings and Stories by J. Michael Walker
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"San Julian Street" Installation
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Solo Exhibition
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"All the Saints of the City of the Angels: Paintings and Stories by J. Michael Walker"
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Now through September 7, 2008
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Autry National Center,
Museum of the American West, Griffith Park, Los Angeles, CA
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Over 50 original paintings, prints and mixed-media constructions, paired with the museum's historical artifacts
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"San Miguel Street" Triptych, Sumi ink on paper, 8 x 15 ft.
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J. Michael Walker's exquisitely detailed, large-scale paintings and three-dimensional constructions converse with a dozen historic artifacts from the collections of the Autry's Museum of the American West and Southwest Museum of the American Indian.
Together, they give voice to the hidden stories of Los Angeles, examining connections between our history, heritage, and present-day realities on the city's saintly named streets.
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Installation view, Eastside Gallery: Paintings, Stories, and Artifacts
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Opening Night, Viewing the Video in the Chapel Gallery
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Tangible history and unanticipated associations are repeatedly revealed, through painting, video, story, and song, in "All the Saints of the City of the Angels," at the Museum of the American West, at the Autry National Center.
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The Chapel Gallery: Santa Monica Blvd., St. Stephanie, and votives
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Since 2000, J. Michael Walker has been researching every Los Angeles street named for saints, delving into city records, hagiographies, old photographs, maps, and history books. This exhibition combines meticulous research with creative inspiration to depict both historical and contemporary stories of conflict and community, spirituality and poverty, homelessness and violence, urban development and sacred space, hopelessness and hopefulness, and more.
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Images from Opening Night for "All the Saints of the City of the Angels,"
28 Feb 2008
All Photos
by Abel Gutierrez, Courtesy the Autry National Center
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With singer-songwriter Angela Correa of Correatown
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The Muse of All the Saints
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Darryl Wright, model for St. Moritz, with his family
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Entering the "Eastside" Gallery
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With David Botello, the great muralist
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