A Sunny Day in L.A.

Artist: Scholnick, Jaime

Date: 2020

Medium: Acrylic and vinyl paint on vintage ottoman

Artwork Dimensions: 15 x 38 x 38 in.

County Department: Arts and Culture

Artwork Site: Civic Art Storage

About the Artwork: The artwork A Sunny Day in L.A. was created from photos taken around Boyle Heights and surrounding areas. Scholnick captured these photos to document people, flora, and neighborhood stores. The artist then collaged the images onto a vintage ottoman and used acrylic and Flashe paint to draw over some areas, highlighting and obscuring them to reflect how memories can both be 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.