Look Up! Billboard Creative Art Show Open on the Streets of L.A.

Look Up! Billboard Creative Art Show Open on the Streets of L.A. Through May 15

Young non-profit aims to transform unused billboards into works of art

LOS ANGELES, April 28, 2015 — (PRNewswire) — The Billboard Creative (TBC) Q1 2015 public art show is open on 14 billboards throughout Hollywood and Los Angeles (see map at www.thebillboardcreative.com/map). This is the inaugural show from The Billboard Creative ( www.thebillboardcreative.com), a non-profit founded in 2014 with the goals of giving artists access to a mass audience and making art as assessable to Angelenos as the numerous billboards they view every day. The boards are on display through May 15.

One of 14 works of art on display on billboards throughout Los Angeles through May 15 as part of The Billboard Creative Q1 2015 outdoor public art show. This is the inaugural show from The Billboard Creative, a non-profit founded in 2014 with the goals of giving artists access to a mass audience and making art as assessable to Angelenos as the numerous billboards they view every day. Show map available at www.thebillboardcreative.com. Artist: Marie-Josee Roy of Trois-Rivieres, Canada. Location of this billboard: Hollywood Blvd. just east of Western Avenue in Los Angeles.

The show includes works in a range of media by 14 artists from seven countries:

Lisa Adams, Los Angeles, painting
Craig Deppen Auge, Kansas City, MO, mixed media collage
George Bates, Brooklyn, illustration
Susan Bowen, New York, NY, photograph
Paula Faraco, Berlin, photograph
Colleen Flaherty, Northern California, painting
Dai Ito, Shibuya-Ku, Japan, photograph
Luisa Menazzi Moretto, Mogliano Veneto, Italy, photograph
Joel Pedersen, San Diego, CA, photograph
Andreea Radutoiu, Los Angeles, photo collage
Sara Rossi, Perugia, Italy, painting
Marie-Jossee Roy, Trois-Rivieres, Canada, mixed media on metal
Hakan Sjostrom, Stockholm, Sweden, photograph
ToTa (Ismini Christakopoulou and Thanasis Farangas), Vienna, Austria, digital art

Visual artist Cey Adams and art and photo curator Dee deLara curated the show.

"This is a grass-roots, volunteer-driven organization that is all about helping artists get their work exhibited to broad audiences and making art a part of the daily lives of more people," said Adam Santelli, TBC's founder. "I found out about remnant billboards last year and did a test and it was amazing to see pedestrians do double takes and come back to view the work. If we can get more artists' work out there, and have people who are walking and driving around LA pause and think 'what is that - that's interesting or cool or beautiful,' we'll consider the show a success."

Artists' submission fees funded billboard space rental for the show. Santelli refers to it as an artist crowd-funding model. Angelenos can download a show map, with addresses and QR codes with Google Maps for each billboard location, at www.thebillboardcreative.com/map.

IMAGES: http://www.thebillboardcreative.com/gallery/
ARTIST INFORMATION: www.THEbillboardcreative.com/artists-q1

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