Joseph Bellows Gallery presents Bijou: Photographs of Theater Box Offices byAve Pildas. This solo exhibition is the artist’s first at the gallery. Bijou will feature Pildas’ small-scale vintage black and white photographs from the mid 1970’s. These images document, as the exhibition’s title implies, the small jewel like structures that crown the façade of their theaters. Pildas’ frontal camera position and distance to his subject remain the same in each image. This methodology forms a visual inventory of varied theater box offices; a typology that surveys the remaining traces of a vanishing architectural and cinematic culture.
Ave Pildas’ photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, Milwaukee Art Museum, New York Public Library, Bibliotheca National, and the Center for Creative Photography, among others. Books by Pildas include: Art Deco Los Angeles (Harper and Row, 1980) and Movie Palaces (Crown Press, 1982 and reissued by Hennessy and Ingalls in 2000). Pildas is a Professor Emeritus at Otis College of Art and Design.
EXHIBITION
Bijou, Box Offices by Ave Pildas
Joseph Bellows Gallery
September 5 – October 24, 2015
7661 Girard Avenue
La Jolla CA 92037, États-Unis
+1 858-456-5620
