Materials & Applications

On show at M&A Courtyard in LA, “The Kid Gets Out of the Picture” is a contemporary update on the aesthetic principles of early 19th century English landscape architecture.

The kid gets out of the picture, installation view at M&A Courtyard, Los Angeles, 2016

The Kid Gets Out of the Picture is a contemporary update on the aesthetic principles of early 19th century English landscape architecture. By the early-nineteenth century, practitioners of the English picturesque had invented a catalog of objects (follys, ha-has, viewpoints) that worked to produce the pictorial effects of landscape painting within real space. Lumps, clumps, and masses made it possible, in a sense, to occupy the picture.

The exhibition in the M&A Courtyard, “The Kid Gets Out of the Picture” returns to the catalog of nouns developed by the picturesque to ask how these tactics can be deployed in reverse, extracting the qualities of images and literalizing them in the real world.