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Hermosa Beach Open, 17.5 x 39", acrylic on canvas
Palisades Coast, 15 x 30", acrylic on canvas
Walk/Don't Walk, 15 x 30", acrylic on canvas
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Vista Sports Mural
I just finished a new Mural-In-A-Day project in Vista, CA (in northern San Diego County). It was quite an adventure. The mural is on the side of a small building in a neighborhood park, next to a large, very busy soccer field and some basketball courts. Teams of all ages, and their families, come to play soccer as well as basketball. The building is currently used as a Sheriff's substation and houses the bathrooms for the park.
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Downtown Law Firm
I recently completed four large canvases for a law firm in downtown Los Angeles. This firm occupies the entire 42nd floor of a high-rise office building in the heart of downtown L.A. and has spectacular views of the City from its many windows. Their building is visible in some of the paintings. The paintings are installed in their reception area and conference rooms.
Click each to see them full size.
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Christmas
Card 2010
Well, this year Gillyan and I have decided to forego the pine trees, fake snow, warm glow, carolers, horse and sleigh, etc., of last year's Holidays in favor of a more pragmatic and direct Holiday approach. You will notice in the photo below that this year we have decorated our house with just about every conceivable type of decoration (please note "Christmas Mickey" on the left).
We know there will be a dear price to pay when the electric bill comes, but we figure that in these tough financial times it will be worth it. Here's our plan: see those lighted arrows and the little runway in the roof pointing to — you guessed it — the chimney?!! We figure the easier we make it for Santa to spot our house and make a safe landing the more grateful he will be. It's probably too late for you to try this at your house, but keep it in mind for next year. And in the meantime, we wish you the most wonderful Holiday Season, a blessed New Year, and — dare we say it? — Merry Christmas!
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Pacific Island Art Museum Mural
In September of last year I completed my large mural for the new Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum in Long Beach. The museum is due to open soon.
Their new website now has information about this unique institution as well as some description of my mural and a link to my website with photos of the building.
Here's a link to their news page about the museum and some information about my mural.
http://www.pieam.org/enews.html
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Artist Debuts on Google Maps
I just discovered that I'm pictured on Google Maps! People had told me recently that when looking on Google Maps Street View at the building in Long Beach on which I recently painted a mural for the new Pacific Island Ethnic Art Museum, that one side of the building showed the new mural and the other side showed the old mural I painted there in 1995. When investigating this, I was completely surprised to discover that when the Google truck with the cameras on it had driven by, my assistants and I were taking our lunch break on the lawn adjacent to the building and were included in the photographs!
Google Maps
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Public Art in Public Places Project
Here's a website that is attempting to catalog all (?!) the public art in Southern California. Interesting project. Is your community represented? If you're in SoCal and not represented, apparently you can submit entries.
http://www.publicartinpublicplaces.info/
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Merry Christmas!
Well, Gillyan and I have really gotten in the Christmas Spirit this season! Attached is a photo of us taken in front of our house. Just look at the decorations, the trees, the tons of fake snow, the lights, the carolers. Not to mention the horse and carriage, for gosh sakes!
We wanted to make these holidays very special for us and for YOU.
It all says "Merry Christmas to YOU" in the best and biggest possible way!!!
And seriously-- we wish you the best possible Holiday season and a wonderful and exciting New Year.
Arthur and Gillyan
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Latest Mural Project
Art has recently completed (Sept. 2009) a large mural for the new Pacific
Island Ethnic Art Museum in Long Beach, CA. The mural wraps completely around
all four sides of an existing 2-story building that is being converted into the
Museum. The mural is essentially a wrap-around panorama of semi-abstract palm
trees as found in Micronesia. Integrated into this this on some parts of the
building are examples of traditional Micronesian architecture. The building is
on a triangular island in the middle of a busy intersection where three streets
come together.
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Me in a Blog
Anyway, this guy here in LA emails me that he wants to put me in this blog, so I
email him back and say go ahead, so he emails me and asks me some questions, so
I email him back and answer the questions, and he emails me again and says that
now he's going to write the blog, so I email him and say great, go ahead, and
then he emails me later with a link to the blog and here it is:
http://nabweekly.ca/?p=3349
Totally cool. And all I had to do was email him back a bunch of times.
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Southwest Art Magazine
An article in the April issue of Southwest Art Magazine spotlighted a number of Art's mural projects over a six-page spread, including a good conversation with the artist.
"FROM COVINA and Crescent City to Alhambra and Lompoc, and in dozens of
other small towns across California, people know of Art Mortimer. He's
the consummate muralist who slips into town and transforms drab stucco
walls into eye-popping murals."
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