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Layered Histories, Boyle Heights

Artist: Scholnick, Jaime

Date: 2021

Medium: Porcelain tile

Artwork Dimensions: 240 x 504 x 2 in.

County Department: Mental Health

Artwork Site: Los Angeles General Medical Center Restorative Care Village

Supervisorial District: 1

Location Status: Permanent

About the Artwork:

The Los Angeles General Medical Center is home to one of the country’s first four Restorative Care Villages (RCVs), which will provide a new model of holistic care for people experiencing homelessness. These LA County Restorative Care Villages will provide a new kind of environment for this vulnerable population, one with a comprehensive, holistic approach to the interrelated and complex needs of homelessness, substance abuse, mental illness, job training/housing, and medical co-morbidity. Accompanying the completion of the Los Angeles General Medical Center RCV, The Civic Art team is pleased to present four new ceramic tiled murals on the facades of the new facilities by local artists, Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia, Jaime Scholnick, Patrick Martinez, and Star Montana. 

 Artist Jaime Scholnick was commissioned to create a ceramic tile mural for the Residential Treatment Program B. In Layered Histories Boyle Heights, Jaime Scholnick celebrates the rich and diverse history and culture of the community. After working closely with community members to identify notable landmarks that represent the neighborhood's complex history, Scholnick initially created her artwork on large plywood panels with select, collaged photographs. She then enhanced the form, line, and color of these images with a unique painting technique, carefully applying meticulous linework over the pictures to unify them into a large neighborhood quilt.

About the Artist:

Jaime Scholnick is a visual artist who lives and maintains a studio in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Claremont Graduate University and studied papermaking in Japan. Scholnick's work has been exhibited in galleries and museums nationally and internationally; at PS1 Long Island City, PØST, Angles Gallery, CB1 Gallery, UCLA Hammer, the Torrance Museum of Art, Barnsdall Municipal Art Gallery, and in LAX Terminal One. She was a recipient of the California Community Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship and Imadate Art Field Artist in Residence in Imadate, Japan. For more information visit: https://jaimescholnick.com/