Viewpoint is a site-specific architectural/video installation eleven feet high, eighteen feet wide and twenty feet deep that gives a free dose of sun, sea and sky to mall-goers. Located at the Phantom Galleries LA Long Beach at the Pike at Rainbow Harbor, the work was created using wall panels from a currently vacant retail space elsewhere in the Pike. The panels, which once hung clothes, have been reconfigured and reimagined as a deep space framing the sunset over Long Beach harbor. Converging in single-point perspective and lifted into a steep incline, the groove-cut panels create ever-reducing concentric frames, exaggerating the perceived depth. The video, playing on loop, was taken of the port from a point on axis with the current installation site.

Artists
TRAVIS FRANKEL AND DANIEL LEHRER-GRAIWER

Dates
Open Now until TBA

Location
150 Bay St Long Beach, 90802

Artist Contact
tfrankel@gmail.com

About the Artists
Daniel Lehrer-Graiwer was born in Los Angeles. After graduating from Columbia University, and living in New York, he packed his bags and set off to work for Ducati Motorcycles in Bologna, Italy. An artist and writer, he currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Travis Frankel was born and raised in upstate New York, Frankel graduated from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a degree in architecture. A designer, carpenter and artist, Frankel currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Past Phantom Gallery
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/pgla/2050496105/in/photostream/)

Partners:

The Long Beach Redevelopment Agency is proud to partner with Phantom Galleries LA, not only to revive empty storefronts along our major corridors, but also to showcase the arts and build a sense of community and culture in our Downtown," said Craig Beck, Executive Director of the Long Beach Redevelopment Agency. LongBeachRDA.org