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The Sun Shone Glaringly evokes all the tropes of the LA myth to address an essential question: how do popular representations of Los Angeles affect our everyday experience of the city

Robert Janitz - Ex Libris Lodret Vandret I Grew up on theOscillating between pure abstraction and perfect representation while adhering fully to neither, Janitz' paintings reference real world forms yet resist actual formal depiction. Employing broad swashes of paint mixed with cold wax medium or flour to a background of oil, Janitz' paintings assume two primary styles. Firstly, his abstract smear paintings, which evoke various manual gestures such as spreading butter on bread, grouting tiles or washing