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NEW OPENING DATE:

OPENING SATURDAY, FEBRUARY25TH FROM 6:00 - 8:00

Kopeikin Gallery is pleased to announce our fourth exhibition with Los Angeles based artist John Fitts, whose previous three exhibitions, "Golf," "No Lifeguard On Duty," and "Indiustrial Landscaping" explored lesser known aspects of the Southern California landscape. His new series: "8 Dead Palm Trees" continues this fascination. These Palm Trees were found on the outskirts of more populated Southern California communities; remnants of failed real estate developments. As such they are the last evidentiary traces of these failures. The exhibition opens on Saturday, February 18th with a reception with the artist from 6:00 - 8:00 and continues through March 31st.

"If the Palm Tree is a sign of a desert oasis than what does a Dead Palm tree signify?" - J Bennett Fitts

As the population of Southern California has grown, developers, hopeful to capitalize on the seemingly endless population growth, have consistently looked further east in to the inhospitable regions of the Colorado and Mojave Deserts for their next real estate projects. eventually though they pushed too far and today trees are all that remain of their aspirations. They were planted by developers with the intention of lining residential streets, but the homes were never built, they mark the entrance way to gated communities that never came to be and line the fairways of a desert golf course that is now nothing more than contoured hills of dirt. The geographic locales in which these trees were found could all be considered to be "the next" areas to be developed.