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"Hopefully, with a little bit of insight, you can get into a point of reference where you start to make some of the associations yourself."Įarlier this year, Carter brainstormed with the artists, who then spent about three months creating their contributions to the show. "Now, some of these images have a new life outside of the movies but in a big collage that's put together in a very free-associated way," Carter said. "It was a fun process."Ĭarter is proud the exhibition became less a retrospective of his work and more about empowering a younger generation of diverse artists who interpreted well-known film characters "on their own terms, and with their spray-can art," the 72-year-old film veteran said. "With Rick's cinema history, there was a lot that we could incorporate," Hayes said. "We wanted it to be a big 'wow,' with a bunch of images and the fabric patterns," said Hayes, who made a quilt from floral and pineapple fabric pieces and phrases from "Forrest Gump." He also painted Michelle Pfeiffer's look of horror from "What Lies Beneath" as her character nearly drowns in a bathtub. Organizers hope that visitors will focus on individual works, triggering memories and emotional attachments to the films represented therein. Even the floor is used for cinematic effect one artist created a "force field," or directional currents of energy, to tie together the various artworks, said Barbara Boehm, ESMoA's director of operations.
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Not a speck of space is wasted in ESMoA's slim gallery, so the striking, 25-foot-high collage - which fuses all the artists' work - initially can feel overwhelming. Abrams, and Carter - although about 17 years apart. For this show, artists presented their takes on iconic props and characters: a blue Na'vi from "Avatar," a DeLorean from "Back to the Future" and the wise Maz Kanata, introduced in "Star Wars: The Force Awakens," a character inspired by a Palisades Charter High School English teacher who taught both the film's director, J.J. Most of the artists are local, and two were featured in a 2014 ESMoA exhibition looking at graffiti and tattoo artists. The collage features the work of Alex Garcia, Luke Hayes, Muraji Khalil, Dalila Paola Méndez, Helena Park, Jacori "Aiseborn" Perry, Ivan “Mr Mustart” Petrovsky, Carlos "Kopyeson" Talavera - and Carter. Carter earned Oscars for the latter two for production design. "Experience 51: Time," which opened in May and runs through March 25, traverses the production designer's four decades in Hollywood and his pivotal role creating the vivid worlds depicted in "Back to the Future," "Jurassic Park," "Forrest Gump," "Avatar" and "Lincoln," among others.
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The weathered wooden structure now is part of an exhibition at El Segundo's art laboratory, ESMoA, that celebrates Carter's Academy Award-winning career - as well as the power of movie imagery. "It has been in my backyard since 1994," Carter said, "personalized through my experiences of being part of the group that made 'Forrest Gump' and by all the conversations with friends that I've had on it since." A full-size replica of the iconic "Forrest Gump" prop was given by producers to key creatives, including Carter, who was the film's production designer. On a recent afternoon, artist Rick Carter sat on a park bench finishing a chocolate from a box of See's Candies.