
Mullholland Drive (The Road to David's Studio)
2015
Mullholland Drive (The Road to David's Studio) presents a wide, cinematic view of one of Los Angeles's most mythologized corridors, rendered in archival pigment with the clarity and tonal depth that defines Jay Lynn Gomez's photographic practice. The elongated horizontal format mirrors the physical experience of the drive itself, stretching the landscape into something that feels both documentary and quietly charged, as though the image is holding its breath between the mundane and the cinematic. The title's parenthetical reference to David Lynch, the filmmaker most closely associated with Mulholland Drive's place in the cultural imagination, layers the work with an additional register of meaning, connecting personal geography to the broader mythology that surrounds this stretch of road. Gomez works at the intersection of place, memory, and the constructed nature of Los Angeles as a visual and psychological landscape. This image participates in that project without collapsing into nostalgia or easy iconography, instead finding something provisional and alive in a view that could easily have become postcard-familiar. The archival pigment medium ensures exceptional longevity and color fidelity, qualities that reward close looking and make the work a strong candidate for long-term collection. Signed by the artist and produced at a scale of 36.2 by 67.6 centimeters, it is an intimate but commanding object. Originally offered through the Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions benefit auction, the work carries with it a provenance tied to one of the city's most respected nonprofit arts organizations.
- Medium
- Archival pigment print
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- Signed
- Yes
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