KEVANI and Public Digital Art Fund host a city-wide display of artworks by Julian Opie in Los Angeles and Baltimore

11 March 2025

KEVANI and Public Digital Art Fund are transforming Los Angeles and Baltimore into an open-air gallery with visual artist Julian Opie. Opie’s instantly recognizable walking and running figures rendered as static and moving paintings on LED screen, will be showcased publicly across displays around the city. These include South Bay Pairing, Fig Spectacular, The Trio, Baltimore Duo, Melrose Lights, i10 Beacon, and 2nd & PCH.

Opie’s graphic language – concise silhouettes, fluid movement, and distilled essence – finds new context within the urban landscape. His characters walk, sprint, and exist in the in-between, dissolving into the rhythm of the metropolis. From Downtown Los Angeles to West Hollywood, and all the way to Baltimore – art becomes part of the city's architecture. This project reimagines what public art can be – an open dialogue, a shared experience, and a bridge between the physical and digital worlds.

This ambitious installation runs concurrently with the artist’s solo exhibition at Lisson Gallery New York, on view through 19 April. United by the theme of the walking figure, the exhibition encompasses sculptures, animations and paintings, these extend the artistic vocabulary that he has developed over four decades – “a language of forms, of images, of people.” Always exploring different techniques both cutting edge and ancient, Opie plays with ways of seeing through reinterpreting the vocabulary of everyday life; his reductive style evokes both a visual and spatial experience of the world around us. Drawing influence from classical portraiture, Egyptian hieroglyphs and Japanese woodblock prints, as well as public signage, information boards and traffic signs, the artist connects the clean visual language of modern life, with the fundamentals of art history.

Find out more via KEVANI.

Image: © Julian Opie