“Nine Lives” at the Hammer Museum
When Llyn Foulkes isn’t creating edgy art, he’s creating edgy music using the one-man-band contraption he simply calls “the Machine.” Foulkes plans to play it May 29 at the closing party of the Hammer Museum’s “Nine Lives” exhibit. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Photographer Charlie White at his home in Los Angeles. He is one of nine local artists engaged in creating intensely imaginative, private fantasy worlds, whose works are being showcased in the “Nine Lives” exhibit at the Hammer. The exhibition is the latest in the biennial Hammer Invitationals, a series that since 2001 has focused on various aspects of Los Angeles art. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
Kaari Upson, here in her North Hollywood studio in front of the replica of the Playboy Mansion grotto that she created, is one of nine Los Angeles artists featured in the Hammer Museum exhibition. (Anne Cusack / Los Angeles Times)
