{"id":186600,"date":"2025-09-28T02:04:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/186600\/"},"modified":"2025-09-28T02:04:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-28T02:04:09","slug":"this-la-artist-paints-taco-bells-and-strip-malls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/186600\/","title":{"rendered":"This LA artist paints Taco Bells and strip malls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jake Longstreth, a Los Angeles-based artist, finds inspiration for <a class=\"externallink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/jakelongstreth.com\/\">his paintings<\/a> in the parking lots of Home Depot, Best Buy, and other retail and restaurant chains.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI try to make beautiful paintings of these places that typically aren&#8217;t thought of as picturesque,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Longstreth said painters over the years have used landscape as a lens to explore the world they live in. \u201cEconomics, politics \u2014 all of that stuff is embedded in the physical landscape,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>In this era where much of the American physical landscape is dominated by asphalt, office buildings, and chain stores, Longstreth has painted <a class=\"externallink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5a45510632601e793c602755\/1636647532614-OLCZ8NEJ7JLQMBCWPVLG\/JLO21.033.jpg?format=750w\">a Taco Bell at the foot of Mount Shasta<\/a>, <a class=\"externallink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5a45510632601e793c602755\/1747352957378-3MB7ZD107V9S5MXH57AM\/HETZLER_LONGSTRETH_031725_0066_V2.jpg?format=750w\">an Amazon delivery truck zooming through a grove of trees<\/a>, and <a class=\"externallink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/5a45510632601e793c602755\/1742244544273-G6L9N3QAAT3F9N2JFF7R\/JL23_39119_photo-Dawn-Blackman_3_sRGB.jpg?format=750w\">a Pizza Hut logo peeking from behind a tree<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have spent many, many weeks and months of my life driving around shopping centers looking for the right vantage point,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Click the audio player above to hear how Longstreth&#8217;s work has changed in the age of e-commerce.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Related Topics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jake Longstreth, a Los Angeles-based artist, finds inspiration for his paintings in the parking lots of Home Depot,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":186601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88,12225,39598,7600],"class_list":{"0":"post-186600","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment","13":"tag-landscapes","14":"tag-paintings","15":"tag-retail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/186601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}