The current WUHO exhibition organized by the Julius Shulman Institute, “Wayne Thom: Matter, Light, and Form,” has been receiving a lot of attention.
A recent article in WIRED highlights the timely relevance of the work that is captured in the photographs of Wayne Thom, featuring late-Modernist and Brutalist buildings of the 70’s and 80’s that have long been overlooked and under appreciated. Described by the exhibition curator, Nicolas Olsberg, as ‘uncompromising’, the work was, according to photographer Wayne Thom, ’the merger of art and science’. The photographs capture the work dramatically and exquisitely. “He seems to have an ability to deal with this extraordinary scale and these varied surfaces that I don’t think anybody else had,” says Nicolas Olsberg.
Read more about the exhibition here:
Architect Magazine: http://www.architectmagazine.com/newsletter/flattering-brutalism-with-photography_c
Architect’s Newspaper: http://blog.archpaper.com/2015/07/not-late-late-modernism-photographer-wayne-thom-archive-looking-home/
LA Forum for Architecture and Urban Design:http://laforum.org/delirious-la/
LA Times: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-wayne-thom-building-photos-20151115-column.html
Wired.com: http://www.wired.com/2015/11/wayne-thom-brutalism/
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http://www.archdaily.com/776791/wayne-thom-exhibition-and-opening
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-wayne-thom-20151113-008-photo.html