The Santa Monica-based artist’s new book, which will be published March 14 from Angel City Press, weaves together memoir and her paintings of the city.
In 1975, Karla Klarin was an emerging artist who, like other artists of her generation, gravitated toward Los Angeles’ downtown, where large spaces were available for cheap. During the years that she lived and worked in the industrial area that would, much later, become the Arts District, Klarin began a series of works based on the downtown skyline.
This image of Karla Klarin’s 1980 acrylic on 3D construction “A Loft on Mill” is from “L.A. Painter.” Show CaptionSeveral years ago, Klarin, who has work in the collections at LACMA, The Hammer Museum and USC Fisher Art Museum, launched a blog with short essays about painting. When she’d amassed a good amount of material, she thought about writing it as a narrative.
Klarin grew up in the San Fernando Valley and, as a child, spent a lot of time downtown, where her grandfather worked as a butcher at Grand Central Market. And she admits that the signs marking the Arts District make her laugh. “It’s great and it’s cool — wine bars and all of that is great — but how do you pay for it?” she wonders. “How do you get a 2000-square-foot studio?”
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