ARTWORK PLAYS AT THE TOP OF EVERY HOUR ON ALL BILLBOARDS
THE NOW (8497 SUNSET)
February 1 - May 31, 2026 - Sunset Garden by Alexandre Arrechea examines architectural forms to uncover the choices, values, and tensions that shape our built environments, encouraging audiences to think differently about how these spaces influence everyday life. Through 3D-rendered bee and mask sculptures, the artwork explores the connection between space, community, and society. The work draws inspiration from the history of the Sunset Strip, the artist’s roots in Havana, and the gardens of Monsieur Balmain’s Villa and Olivier Rousteing’s immersive virtual reality designs. The artwork can be seen at the top of every hour on the digital billboard at 8497 Sunset Boulevard (The Now).
Alexandre Arrechea is an internationally acclaimed Cuban artist whose work spans large-scale installations, sculptures, watercolor drawings, and videos that interrogate history, memory, politics, and the power dynamics of urban space. A founding member of the influential collective Los Carpinteros (1991–2003), Arrechea has since developed a celebrated solo career defined by his site-specific approach, which engages the ideological and philosophical context of each location. His notable projects include Nolimits (2013), ten sculptures inspired by New York City’s iconic architecture along Park Avenue; Katrina Chairs (2016) at the Coachella Music Festival; and Dreaming with Lions (2020), an immersive forum-like installation at Faena Miami Beach. Recent collaborations include Hexagon Garden with Balmain (Miami, 2022) and Black Sabbath, a ballet with the Birmingham Royal Ballet (UK, 2023).
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SUNCIENEGA (8501 SUNSET)
February 1 - May 31, 2026 - Animalation by Kordae Henry is part of a larger project focused on ancestral storytelling and imagined futures. The video shows a close-up of dancing feet wearing white shoes and white pants, set against a black background. The movement feels familiar, as if we almost recognize the dance step, but it remains just out of reach. The dancer’s body is mostly hidden, with the frame focused only on the feet, making the figure anonymous. What stands out is the gentle rhythm and sway of the dance, slowed down to draw our attention to each movement. The work invites viewers to think about presence and absence, and to consider who this dancer might represent and what stories these feet may be carrying. Presented every 20 minutes on the digital billboard at 8501 Sunset Boulevard (Sun Cienega).
Kordae Jatafa Henry is a Los Angeles-based filmmaker and visual artist. Through live-action music films, installations, dance, game engine environments, and mythology, Henry’s work invites new ways of seeing humans, folklore, mysticism, pop culture, post-genre music, labor, and creation stories as tools to explore the radical imagination. He has a Master of Architecture/Landscape Architecture from University of Pennsylvania School of Design and a Master of Arts in SCI-Arc’s postgraduate Fiction and Entertainment. He was a nominee for the shots 2020 Awards’ New Director of the Year and has exhibited his work in museums and festivals all over the world.
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THE WHORL (8730 SUNSET)
February 1 - May 31, 2026 - Scroll 2 by Sara Cwynar is a sometimes lingering, sometimes frenetic meditation on the archive and how images shift, accumulate, endure, and change in meaning and value as they age. Working in photographic, digital, and real space, the artist combines existing images from art history and her personal archive to remix and re-present familiar visual ideas. The vertical movement of this video recalls a twentieth century research tool, the microfiche, which allowed the user to peer into historic documents by scrolling up and down. Here, on a gigantic screen, controlled by an unseen hand, that scroll becomes architectural in scale, prompting us to reflect on how visual culture defines and defies us. The artwork can be seen at the top of the hour and at :30 minutes past the hour on the digital billboard at 8730 Sunset Boulevard (The Whorl).
Sara Cwynar is an artist working in photography and video, making visual assemblages that recall advertisements, retail catalogues, and old art history textbooks. She holds an MFA from Yale University and a BDes from York University. Past projects include Baby Blue Benzo at 52 Walker, New York (2024), a commission for the Performa Biennial, New York (2021), Alphabet at ICA Boston (2025) “S/S 23”, Foam Photography Museum, Amsterdam (2023) “Apple Red, Grass Green, Sky Blue, ICA Los Angeles (2022)” “Source,” Remai Modern (2021), “L’Image Volée,” Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy (2016); and “Greater New York,” MoMA PS1, Queens, NY (2015/16). Cwynar’s works are held in the collections of The MoMA, New York, the Centre Pompidou, Paris; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; and the National Gallery of Canada among others. In 2025 she received a Guggenheim Fellowship.
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INVISIBLE FRAME (8743 SUNSET)
February 1 - May 31, 2026 - Dandelion Dreams: To Plant a Seed by Da'Shaunae Marisa features six costumed figures embodying flowers journey through the fleeting beauty and cyclical nature of life, their petals and seeds carried by the wind as symbols of memory, renewal, and transformation. Through this work, the artist invites reflection on impermanence, collective progress, and the interconnectedness of all beings. Rooted in storytelling and play, the artist’s practice is dedicated to healing, addressing marginalization, ancestral trauma, and the silencing of people of color, while celebrating the beauty, resilience, and complexity of Black life as a bridge between past struggles and future freedom. Presented at the top and at :30 minutes past the hour on the digital billboard at 8743 Sunset Boulevard (Invisible Frame).
Da'Shaunae Marisa (b. 1996), a Cleveland native now based in Los Angeles, is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work illuminates the beauty and complexity of Black life in America and globally. Exploring the intergenerational threads of trauma and connection, she creates intimate, yet grounded imagery intended to foster awareness and reflection. Her work has been featured in National Geographic, The New York Times, Aperture, Time, and Google, with commercial collaborations including Google, For Freedoms, Target, and Snapchat. Da'Shaunae is also a recent Google Image Equity Award Fellow.
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SUNSET SPECTACULAR (8775 SUNSET)
February 1 - May 31, 2026 - The True Story of Edges: Sunset Boulevard by Jessica Wimbley features a video collage of visual imagery within the artist's afro and braided hair. Edges, a play on the African American vernacular for the fine hairs along the hairline, uses hair as a mutable space of memory and storytelling. Videos from sources like the Prelinger Archive that address the history of Sunset Boulevard are mixed with contemporary found and created imagery, nature, and space. Connecting historic content created by people who have lived or visited the area, Sunset Boulevard directly reflects the history of the folks in the community fostering a discussion that includes elements of intersectionality and inclusion, cultural history and memory. The video is a new iteration of her Edges series designed specifically to address the vertical dimensions of the billboard. The artwork can be seen at the top and at :30 minutes past the hour on the digital billboard at 8775 Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Spectacular).
Jessica Wimbley, based in Sacramento, California, is an artist and curator whose interdisciplinary practice draws on biomythography, a framework defined by Audre Lorde as the fusion of biography, myth, and history, to explore identity through photography, video, performance, collage, and material culture. She builds visual archives that create juxtapositions and interruptions within historical narratives, with work included in collections such as the CA Public Digital Art Collection, Crocker Art Museum, and LACMA. Her public art projects include True Story of Edges: Leimert Park (2025) at MetroLA, Fieldworks: California State Railroad Museum (2024), Fieldworks: Califia (2021), the Social Justice Billboard Project in Minneapolis, and Masking Series (2021), which addressed Californians impacted by COVID. Wimbley holds a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design, an MFA in Visual Arts from UC Davis, and an MA in Arts Management from Claremont Graduate University. She is currently Artist in Residence for the Twin Rivers School District, a consultant with the California State Railroad Museum, and served as the 2023–2024 Creative Corp Fellow for the City of Sacramento.
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COMING SOON!
WHISKY A GO GO (8901 SUNSET)
TBD - May 31, 2026 - Lucid Dream, by Richard Mapes, explores how different ways of being in the world stage the stories we live every day, the stories we fear may become real, and the dreams we hope to someday achieve. In the fictional world of Lucid Dream, humans are gone, and we’re not entirely sure where they went. The global AI that they left behind, tasked with making room for them in the world, was originally trained on infrastructure data sets. But when a maintenance robot tripped over a data cable, and accidentally replaced it with the wrong one, the global intelligence became infected with models trained on fairytales in turn creating a post-anthropocene, and the dawn of the AI-thropocene. AI was not used to generate animated sequences or 3D design for this work. The artwork can be seen at the top of and at :30 minutes past the hour on the digital billboard at 8901 Sunset Boulevard (Whisky A Go Go).
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RAINBOW/ROXY (9015 SUNSET)
February 1 - May 31, 2026 - Doom Scroll by Pix3lface is a pop-surrealist journey through human media and music television, from analog to algorithm, presented in hypnotic loops. The work unfolds like a hallucination of pop culture, blending familiar tropes, icons, and music-video language (evoking MTV’s Liquid Television) through digital distortion until the line between creator and machine dissolves. The work rapidly explores elements from the fall of counterculture from the 1960s to modern day post-human perfectionism. Elements appear like service announcements promising unity, honesty, and transparency with bright, colorful explosions of collective joy. Entirely hand-crafted and hand-drawn from motion posters, the frame-by-frame animation and tactile patterns evoke the imperfect rhythm of Southern California’s lowbrow art tradition, with no AI used in the creation of the artwork. The artwork can be seen at the top of and at :30 minutes past the hour on the digital billboard at 9015 Sunset Boulevard (Rainbow/Roxy).
Darin Vartanian, aka Pix3lFace, is a Los Angeles–based visual artist and music video director specializing in hand-drawn and animated content for live events, music videos, and immersive experiences. He directed videos for Kodak Black, Mike Shinoda, Galantis, and Wiz Khalifa, and contributed to productions with A$AP Rocky, Sublime, and Disco Lines. Vartanian creates 2D/3D animated assets, projection mapping, and LED/visual content for major music festivals such as HARD Fest and WorldPride Fest, as well as for brands like Disney and Macallan. From 2021–2024, he was Artist in Residence at Frameworx, producing visual storytelling for shows featuring Wu-Tang Clan, Childish Gambino, LISA, Rosé, Lauryn Hill, and YG Marley. In 2023, he collaborated on Kendrick Lamar’s tour, transforming hand-drawn illustrations into live shadow art, and his earlier work includes award-winning fashion films with Luca Finotti and projects for Nike and Versace.
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STREAMLINED ARBOR (9157 SUNSET)
February 1 - May 31, 2026 - Artist Shoji Yamasaki’s split-screen compilation video, Littered Mvmnts in L.A., features litter moving in the wind, paired with the artist, dressed as that same piece of detritus, mimicking its movement. Each performance has taken place somewhere in the Los Angeles area, represented in 15-second spans. Across the screen scroll the words “Please pick up your trash” in English and “Pick up your things” in the local Indigenous Tongva language. Yamasaki utilizes the personification of carelessly tossed-out trash to address the relationship between human-made rubbish and the environment. Like the wind, the poetics of the dance uplift the discarded and bring it to our attention. Presented every 20 minutes on the digital billboard at 9157 Sunset Boulevard (Streamlined Arbor).
Shoji Yamasaki is a choreographer, dancer, performance artist, director, writer, and filmmaker. He creates site-responsive and immersive works that explore history, architecture, and community. He is a graduate of UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance program, and California Institute of the Arts MFA in Choreography. His works have been presented at the Jerry Moss Plaza at the Music Center, REDCAT (Roy Edna Disney/CalArts Theater) in Los Angeles, Gibney Dance in New York, Conservatorio de Danza México in Mexico, and Diamant Offenbach/Museum of Urban Culture in Germany.
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COMEDY STORE (8433 SUNSET)
All exhibitions are curated by the City of West Hollywood
