Jim McHugh exibition opens this week

As part of the LA Art Show 2015 the work SCRATCH by Jim McHugh will be on display, a massive 17 foot (5.2 meter) panorama of the recent graffiti installation titled “Scratch” at the El Segundo Museum of Art (ESMoA). Photographed over several months, this amazing photo collage features images of both graffiti artists and the walls they decorate and is printed on Innova FibaPrint® paper. “Scratch” was curated by David Brafman, curator of rare books at the Getty Research Institute, the photograph includes such acknowledged artists as Phantom, Axis, Cre8, Defer, Eyeone, Fishe, Miner, Gajin Fujita, Big Sleeps, Prime, Heaven, Trigz, Patrick Martinez, Enkone, and Doctoreye. Many other dedicated artists freely contributed to this monumental graffiti installation.

The LA Art Show is open January 14-18 at the LA Convention Center.

About Jim McHugh
Photographer Jim McHugh has chronicled the Los Angeles art world for over three decades, publishing several books including “California Painters: New Work” with Henry Hopkins and “The Art of Light and Space” for Abbeville Press. His artist portraits were included in the Getty Museum’s “Pacific Standard Time” in conjunction with Timothy Yarger Fine Art. Click here to see more of Jim’s photographs.

About the exhibit “Scratch”
The Getty Research Institute’s rare books collection includes a 16th Century liber amicorum (book of friends) manuscript illustrated by artists of the time. In 2013, The Getty Research Institute invited LA’s leading graffiti artists to contribute to a single book, thus creating the Getty Graffiti Black Book. ESMoA and the Getty Research Institute subsequently invited Getty Black Book artists to turn ESMoA into an open black book. With the “Scratch” installation, graffiti and tattoo artists transformed the space into a cathedral of urban art for the first public presentation of the LA Liber Amicorum.