Hollywood Debris, 2024
Wendy Murray, in collaboration with Lesley Wheeler
Printer: Wendy Murray Studios
Dimensions: 48 x 16 in
Medium: 22 paper stencil layers (serigraph / stencils) on cotton rag
Edition:10
Hollywood Debris is part of a collaborative series responding to the artist Paul DeLongpre, a French painter of flowers who lived in Hollywood just as Hollywood became Hollywood. Poet Lesley Wheeler and I saw in him mystery—an artist who made a (opulent) living solely from his ability to paint extremely realistic, beautiful flowers, who drew thousands of people to his home and gardens to see where the magic happened. But now, where his mansion once stood is a city block. We have been drawing, printing, and writing and have plans for a site specific installation. Hollywood Debris is a riff on a DeLongpre painting – the trash replacing the DeLongpre immigrant garden flowers, the helicopters replacing butterflies and bees. Created from a drawing and 22 paper cut stencils, the work was printed in Murray’s tiny Silver Lake garage studio.