Metro Art Los Angeles

🎉 Happy First Birthday, LAX/Metro Transit Center Station! 

Tomorrow will be one year since Metro opened a new portal connecting Los Angeles and the world, linking LAX to our transit network and making it easier than ever to explore the region by rail. 

The station's opening also marked the unveiling of Glenn Kaino's The Distance of the Sun, a monumental artwork featuring a series of vessels—both real and imagined—suspended above the station. For this project, Kaino teamed up with Origami Master Robert J Lang and SoLA Impact at the Tech Center at the Beehive to invite young people from South Los Angeles to create additional images of spaceships from their imagination. From these 2D drawings, Kaino chose several for Lang to transform into intricate 3D origami sculptures. The paper objects were then scanned and utilized in the assembly of the pieces comprising the final sculpture. One year later, The Distance of the Sun reminds us of the distances we'll travel together, to discover and connect. 

Welcome to Los Angeles. Your journey starts here. ✈️🚆✨

"Artworks by Pelle Cass transform athletic fields and courts into exuberant stages of stop-motion accumulations. Exploring the concept of play, Cass composes densely populated images where entire games unfold at once."

Experience "Play" at Union Station Artworks by Pelle Cass transform athletic fields and courts into exuberant stages of stop-motion accumulations. Exploring the concept of play, Cass composes densely populated images where entire games unfold at once. In these nearly human-scaled photographs, players multiply, balls arc in constellat...

Something new is brewing at Union Station Los Angeles 👀

Behind every Metro Art Los Angeles’s Passageway Art Gallery exhibition is a full team effort, and this gallery refresh is no exception! From carefully measuring and installing new equipment, patching and painting walls, delicately inspecting large films with gloves, mounting artworks, and turning on the glow of Metro Art’s new luminous sign, every detail is thoughtfully planned before the big reveal.

This transformation takes special tools, skilled hands and minds, and a whole lotta love and collaboration. The Metro Art team and Union Station project staff all worked together to turn your journey through the Passageway into a dynamic and immersive art experience along the way!

More about the artworks coming soon, stay tuned! ✨

What a meaningful way to gather and honor Veterans through art.

Last month we held a celebration for the Veterans, their families, and the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center community who contributed to  ‘Colors of Courage’, four temporary art banners created for the Metro D Line station construction site at the West LA VA by artist (Stephanie Mercado).

Mercado led a series of printmaking and collage workshops with residents and community members from Veteran service organizations on the West LA VA campus, including New Directions for Veterans, Veterans Home of California – West Los Angeles (CalVet), and the Bandini Foundation Heroes Golf Heroes. Participants were invited to add personal photos and meaningful objects into their pieces. Portraits of workshop attendees and their projects were placed into the final banner designs, bringing their stories of service, strength, and community to life in a colorful and heartfelt way.

"With the recent opening of Los Angeles Metro’s D Line Extension, subway riders can now travel between downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills while encountering a new collection of site-specific public artworks integrated directly into the stations themselves." - California Institute of the Arts

LA Metro’s Newly Opened D Line Extension Includes Works by CalArts Alumni Todd Gray and Soo Kim - 24700 With the recent opening of Los Angeles Metro's D Line Extension, subway riders can now travel between downtown Los Angeles and Beverly Hills while