DRIVE-BY-ART

various locations, East of Western
May 23-25, 2020
Los Angeles

DRIVE-BY-ART was organized by Warren Neidich, Renee Petropoulos, Michael Slenske and Anuradha Vikram and featured two locations, East and West of Western Avenue, over two weekends. Dubbed “Public Art in This Moment of Social Distancing,” all works were visible to the public from the safety and intimacy of their car or while passing by on foot or bike. Hubby created a new painting for her contribution to the show: ABRACADABRA. which she hung on a retaining wall that visible to traffic.

“Warren (Neidich, the primary organizer of the show) reached out to me—we’ve known each since New York in the ‘90s - both burgeoning art collaboration enthusiasts. I’m thrilled to be involved in his brilliant exhibition pandemic adaptation, a refreshing shift of focus and evidence of creative acts born of predicament—and a treasure hunt from the comfort of one's car.

This new site specific painting is a neon painting depicting a recognizable word to remember: “ABRACADABRA.” Most associate it with magic trickery, The word’s origin from 2nd century Hebrew translates as: I create as I speak and was meant for healing incantation. With the pandemic in mind, I painted the word repeatedly in its traditional triangular form, with one letter dropped from each successive line. The intention: as the word is repeated and reduced, so is our collective illness.” ~Hubby