About the Work
Baxter Street is a drip-ridden, graffiti-like snapshot of a Los Angeles neighborhood transfigured by David Korty’s imagination; it could be thought of as a portrayal of an uninhabited, post-apocalyptic L.A. that has been taken over by rainforest-type vegetation. Taking the city and its suburbs as its central theme, the print is highly representative of this Californian artist’s work. Korty has on many occasions expressed his fascination with this particular metropolis: “It is a place that you can live in for 50 years and still never really grasp it in its fullness.”
About the Artist
Californian artist David Korty’s images of scenes in Los Angeles— Ikea, malls, urban youngsters going about their everyday lives—tap into an indubitably hip aesthetic that channels oh-so-current cartoons, illustrations, and street art. However, even the most ruthless critic would concede Korty’s ability to crystallize the beauty of the overlooked quotidian moment, not by embellishing or complicating it in any way but through a commendable technique of reducing reality to its most basic elements with washed out colors, geometric shapes, and simple lines.
A survey of David Korty’s work will nonetheless pinball through many different moods, sceneries, and styles. The aesthetically pleasing representations will keep a hypnotic grasp on the viewer, who will be left wondering if, perhaps, they saw them in a dream.
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