"Vestiges" by Jonna Lee and John David O'Brien

Sponsored by the Arts and Culture Commission

"Vestiges" obliquely divides the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station into two, depicting abstracted traces from the artists' lives.

Vestiges obliquely divides the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station into two. Jonna Lee and John David O’Brien each occupy one triangular section of the gas station and place back-to-back modified pieces of furniture containing multiple drawers. Abstracted traces from their own lives emerge suspended and standing from these drawers. The objects used in the installation relate to Lee’s and O’Brien’s overlapping names. The root of both their names results in the two sides of the room to be complementary but in very different arrays.

Lee is a LA-based contemporary sculptor whose artwork engages process, material, and form. Her interests revolve around the viewers' assumptions about particular materials, the anthropomorphically charged potential of sculpture, and the visceral impact present when any given artwork attracts the human senses.

O'Brien creates artwork, writes, and works in a larger community creating exhibition spaces, curatorial projects, and public art. His personal creative evolution is grounded in abstraction rooted from his life experience as part of a military family.

This temporary art installation is generously sponsored by the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission through funding from the Urban Art Program, and support from Glendale Library, Arts & Culture, Glendale Community Services and Parks, and the Adams Hill Neighborhood Association.

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