Metro Art: Love, Leimert
Leimert Park Station, K Line
Los Angeles, CA
Artist(s): Ahree Lee, Anna Luisa Petrisko, Isaiah Ferguson, Jessica Wimbley, Julie Orser, Momodu Mansaray, Navid Sinaki, Russell Hamilton, Stephanie Mercado, Yoshie Sakai
Love, Leimert is a love letter to Leimert Park presenting moving image artworks by ten artists working with a diverse range of styles and subject matter. Utilizing archival images, Super8, animation and collage, the artworks celebrate the cultural vibrancy of Leimert Park and the surrounding neighborhoods.
Colors explode through blossoming gardens, celebratory parades unfurl, rhythms emanate from dancing feet around drum circles as individual stories and shared experiences unfold onscreen. Citing local architecture, imagery and symbolism, the works further investigate Leimert Park’s layered cultural traditions and history. Linking past and present, Love, Leimert honors the people that call Leimert Park home and those dedicated to preserving its legacy.
True Story of Edges: Leimert Park, 2023
Jessica Wimbley
Video Collage, 1:55 Minutes
The True Story of Edges: Leimert Park presents hair as a mutable space of memory and storytelling. Playing on the African American vernacular for the fine hairs along the hairline, the artwork features the artist with a video collage within her afro that mixes contemporary images with home videos from the Prelinger Archive featuring families from Baldwin Hills, Leimert Park, Watts and South Central Los Angeles. Imagery is collaged throughout the hair of the figure, generating multiple and simultaneous narratives of the people who have lived within the surrounding communities.
