{"id":14709,"date":"2012-09-01T05:26:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-01T04:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/?p=14709"},"modified":"2017-08-07T23:14:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T22:14:28","slug":"unexpected-space-in-a-pasadena-parking-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communicatescience.com\/zoonomian\/2012\/09\/01\/unexpected-space-in-a-pasadena-parking-garage\/","title":{"rendered":"Unexpected Space in a Pasadena Parking Garage"},"content":{"rendered":"

You never know what unexpected quirky stuff is going to show up if you keep your eyes open.<\/p>\n

\"Graffiti<\/a>
Graffiti by Kenny Scharf in garage of Pasadena Museum of California Art (Photo:Tim Jones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

This afternoon, Erin and I visited the Pasadena Museum of California Art<\/a> to see an exhibition of works by Edgar Payne<\/a>.  We’re both fans of American plein-air painting, and Payne was a master of the technique – so the exhibition was a great success.  But parking up, we found the Museum’s garage had its own artistic charm.<\/p>\n

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The graffiti is by artist Kenny Scharf<\/a>, and instantly caught my eye with its images of rocket ships and swirling galaxies.   The garage – or Kosmic Kavern – is the colorful legacy of an exhibition<\/a> of Scharf’s work in the gallery proper in 2004 – his graffiti in the garage was just never cleaned off!  Scharf’s work is influenced by the 1962 animated comedy sit-com The Jetsons, and there are other bits of space and nuclear iconography from the Golden Age of American Science<\/a> spotted around – like the mushroom cloud and atom-swirl.<\/p>\n

\"The<\/a>
The Jetson’s lived the future for folks in 1962<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"The<\/a>
The Jetsons (Source: Wikipedia)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Some of the Jetson’s techno-utopia became a reality.  But not, unfortunately, the aerocar or three-day week.<\/p>\n

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More Kenny Scharf<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you’d like to see more of his Kenny Scharf’s work, there’s a good collection at Artsy’s Kenny Scharf Page<\/a><\/p>\n

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Of related interest on Zoonomian<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chemistry in the Golden Age of American Science<\/a><\/p>\n

Buck Rogers – A Copper-clad Lesson from History<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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