February 24 – March 30, 2024
Gallery reception: Saturday, February 24 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm
“Fremont Billboard,” 1973 Unique archival photo print, 20 x 30 inches
We are pleased to announce the exhibition “Paul Tzanetopoulos: Las Vegas 1972-1975,” a presentation of vintage photographs, videos and art objects by this veteran Los Angeles based artist.
Join us for an opening reception on Saturday, February 24 from 2:00 to 5:00 pm. “Paul Tzanetopoulos: Las Vegas 1972-1975” is presented in conjunction with “Takako Yamaguchi: Eight Artworks 2009 / 2021.” Both exhibitions continue through March 30 at as-is.la.
Las Vegas in the early 1970’s provided the young artist Paul Tzanetopoulos—as it did a number of older and more prominent artists, writers and architects—that rare and almost magical combination of “right place and right time.” Indeed, when architects Robert Venturi and Denise Scott-Brown were busy studying the Las Vegas strip for their groundbreaking book “Learning from Las Vegas” (1972) and when artists Michael Heizer, Walter de Maria and James Turrell were flying in and out of Las Vegas in search of sites in the surrounding deserts for their own wildly ambitious art projects, Tzanetopoulos was at work on a series of equally inventive if still little known artworks sited both inside and outside of this uniquely important city he then called home. “Paul Tzanetopoulos: Las Vegas 1972-1975” presents a selection of these vintage Las Vegas artworks together here for the first time.