Metro Art commissioned Professor of Art Ken Gonzales-Day to create a public art display at the new Metro D Line Wilshire/Fairfax Station across the street from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The exhibit, titled Urban Excavation: Ancestors, Avatars, Bodhisattvas, Buddhas, Casts, Copies, Deities, Figures, Funerary Objects, Gods, Guardians, Mermaids, Metaphors, Mothers, Possessions, Sages, Spirits, Symbols, and Other Objects, was created by Gonzales-Day after he reviewed more than 4,000 sculptural objects that are part of LACMA’s permanent collection.
“I hope that Urban Excavation will allow visitors a chance to rediscover LACMA, and some of L.A. County’s richest cultural treasures, for many years to come,” Gonzales-Day told LACMA’s blog Unframed.
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