FLAUNT MAGAZINE ISSUE 183

A TAP CARD TO THE FUTURE | EMBRACING SOUTH LA’S NEW CRENSHAW CORRIDOR K LINE VIA ART, COMMUNITY, AND A TOUCH OF FASHION

Left to right: D-LO wears ETRO coat and pants, GUIDI shoes, and HUBLOT watch. Sekayi wears ETRO top and pants, SANTONI shoes, and HUBLOT watch. Stevan wears ETRO top and pants and HUBLOT watch.

Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Station, Only Light, Only Love. Shinique Amie Smith. Courtesy LA County Metropolitan Transportation Authority

LA METRO K LINE OPENING OCTOBER 7 at NOON

Video: Shinique Smith on “Only Light, Only Love”

at future Martin Luther King Jr. Station

LA METRO K LINE OPENING OCTOBER 7 at NOON - More info here - https://kline.metro.net

In an upcoming Metro Art station artwork titled Only Light, Only Love, artist Shinique Smith uses the medium of glass mosaic to share the well-known and empowering words by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. that state “Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate, only love can do that.”

On this day that is dedicated to love, and in honor of Black History Month, we’re debuting a new video that offers a peek into Shinique Smith’s design process and philosophy—as well as the artist’s hopes for the station artwork to inspire people in everyday life, as she was inspired to include the famous quote by Dr. King that puts love front and center.

“I used (the words of Dr. King) as a connective line in the composition that created a rhythm of movement and the heartbeat throughout the piece,” states Smith.

The artwork will be a prominent feature of the future Martin Luther King Jr. Station, part of the Crenshaw/LAX Line.

Learn more about the artwork here.

Learn more about the Crenshaw/LAX Art Program here.

SHINIQUE SMITH: STARGAZERS

at The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art

This exhibition presents a new body of work by Shinique Smith, whose multidisciplinary practice includes painting, sculpture, video, photography, installation and performance. Exploring ideas of transformation and ritual through materials such as fabric, clothing, personal belongings, breath, bundling, collage and gesture, Smith has built a complex visual vocabulary that resonates on intimate and social scales. 

Smith’s Breathing Room: Moon Marked Journey will also debut—a new time-based work that evolved out of the artist’s 2018 performance at Open Spaces KC.

Artist talk and reception: May 5th, 2022 from 6 p.m. Artist lecture will be held online and in Hudson Auditorium with a reception following in the Nerman atrium (drinks and light bites).