This exhibition concentrates on Adam Bartos’ photographs of Los Angeles taken during the late 1970s. Using a large format camera, Bartos photographs unpopulated side streets and quiet corners of simple homes, elevating images of apparent emptiness to iconic importance. The artist methodically strips out the city’s scenic qualities in his images, offering instead precise formal arrangements of elements such as driveways, fragments of lawns, cars parked under an overpass, or telephone wires.

Inspired by the pioneering color work of William Eggleston, Stephen Shore and Joel Meyerowitz, Adam Bartos carries forward the tradition of American vernacular photography. His photographs are distinguished by their subtle color palette and uncanny stillness.