
Loyola Law School - The Chapel
1980
This serigraph captures one of Frank Gehry's most personally charged architectural projects, the Chapel at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, rendered in a single bold color on archival paper at a compact 41.9 by 54.6 centimeters. Completed in 1980, the Loyola Law School campus marked a pivotal moment in Gehry's career, where he began to articulate his signature vocabulary of fragmented forms, classical allusions reinterpreted through a postmodern lens, and deliberately incomplete spatial narratives. The Chapel, a freestanding structure within that campus, distilled those ideas into their most concentrated form, and this print communicates the drawing's raw, gestural confidence that defined how Gehry communicated architectural vision during that era. The work is a serigraph produced in conjunction with the 2003 MOCA survey exhibition devoted to Gehry's practice, a landmark retrospective that traced the full arc of his influence on contemporary architecture. Printed in a single color with archival paper stock, the piece reflects the considered production values typical of museum editions from that period. Since the close of that exhibition, the work has been largely absent from the market, making its reappearance genuinely uncommon for collectors focused on Gehry's output or on the intersection of architectural drawing and fine art printmaking. The signed impression adds a direct point of connection to the artist, and the archival paper ensures the work's longevity as both a document of architectural history and an object of aesthetic merit in its own right.
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- MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
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- Gallery · MOCAView on map
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