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Welcome to Motor City offers sincere affection salted with a measure of cynicism for Los Angeles car culture, seen through the eyes of Chris Burden, Ed Kienholz, Frank Romero and Ed Ruscha. In Ruscha’s print portfolio, Motor City, and Frank Romero’s sculpture, Carro con Corazon (Rojo), we see an idealization of 1950s/1960s vintage cars and car culture. Chris Burden’s 1973 diptych, If You Fly, If You Drive, portrays a more pessimistic view of driving in Los Angeles, and Edward Kienholz’s Expert embodies the masculinity of American car culture.

In L.A. you are what you drive.

With Motor City, …