his passing in 2025.<\/a><\/p>\nFor more than 50 years, Lynch called Los Angeles home. He arrived in the city in 1972 and quickly became fascinated by its distinctive light, architecture, streets, and darker, more mysterious side.<\/p>\n
That relationship with L.A. is the focus of this exhibition, which explores the city not simply as a physical place but as an atmosphere and feeling.<\/p>\n
Lynch\u2019s photographs capture everything from distinctive architecture and industrial landscapes to human figures, everyday objects and surreal compositions. Lynch had a way of transforming the familiar into something decidedly uncanny.<\/p>\n
What you\u2019ll see at the David Lynch exhibition<\/p>\n
The exhibition brings together five photographic series, offering a look at the artist\u2019s work beyond his better-known films and television projects.<\/p>\n
Figures and Smoke<\/p>\n
Five large-scale color photographs from Lynch\u2019s Figures and Smoke series anchor the exhibition.<\/p>\n
The tightly cropped portraits feature women\u2019s faces surrounded by drifting smoke, creating hazy, dreamlike images that feel both beautiful and unsettling.<\/p>\n
Lynch\u2019s Portraits of Los Angeles<\/p>\n
Lynch also turned his camera toward the city itself. His photographs of Los Angeles focus on its architecture, industrial edges and overlooked urban spaces, capturing the city with the same cinematic eye he brought to his films.<\/p>\n
Rather than showing the postcard version of L.A., these images explore the stranger, more atmospheric side of the city.<\/p>\n
The Nude<\/p>\n
The exhibition also features a selection of Lynch\u2019s black-and-white photographs exploring the nude.<\/p>\n
The human body is transformed into abstract, almost landscape-like forms, blurring the boundaries between figure and environment.<\/p>\n
The Couch Series<\/p>\n
In his Couch Series, Lynch revisits the traditional reclining figure found throughout art history.<\/p>\n
Using photographic layering and distortion, he multiplies and blurs the figures, creating surreal compositions inspired in part by early photographic techniques.<\/p>\n
Kits<\/p>\n
Perhaps the most unexpected series in the exhibition, Kits reflects Lynch\u2019s fascination with everyday objects and the mechanics of how things work.<\/p>\n
Inspired by his childhood interest in building model airplanes, Lynch photographed the process of disassembling a fish, chicken and duck, accompanied by instructions for putting them back together.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s a particularly Lynchian take on the ordinary \u2014 taking something familiar and turning it into something strange.<\/p>\n
\ud83d\udcc5 Dates: September 19\u2013December 23, 2026
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