Boyle Heights Ottoman

Artist: Scholnick, Jaime

Date: 2020

Medium: Acrylic and vinyl paint on vintage ottoman

Artwork Dimensions: 14 x 40 x 41 in.

County Department: Arts and Culture

Artwork Site: Civic Art Storage

About the Artwork: While driving around Boyle Heights, from East to West on Cesar Chavez and the various streets North and South, Scholnick took pictures of interesting sights that caught her eye. Whether it was the color, the forms, or the underlying significance of the images, the artist worked to compile a visual library of the area. She then collaged these photos onto a vintage ottoman, drawing over some of the areas with acrylic and Flashe paint highlighting and obscuring them in the way memories can be both clear and faded. This artwork is from the artist's series "This Is Out Ottoman Empire."

About the Artist: Jaime Scholnick’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including at PS1, NY, MOCA Tucson, Sarasota Museum of Art, Torrance Art Museum, Barnsdall Art Park, and in Japan at The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo and Kobo Chika Gallery. Ms. Scholnick is a recipient of a 2017 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts. Her 400-foot mural, Layered Histories installed on the track level of the newly built Crenshaw/Expo Station is part of the new LAX/Crenshaw Transit Project which opened 2021. Her work is in several notable collections from LACMA to Westmount Asset Management and MOCA Tucson as well as private collections Internationally. Ms. Scholnick received her BA from California State University Sacramento and her MFA from The Claremont Graduate University. She manages an artist studio building in East Los Angeles, where she works and resides. To learn more about the artist please visit https://www.jaimescholnick.com.