Flat Out: Joshua Vides Art Installation
Joshua Vides spent nine days turning a gallery at the Petersen Automotive Museum into a room that looks hand-drawn instead of built. The Los Angeles artist calls his technique Reality to Idea: he coats real objects in white, then hand-paints black outlines tracing every seam, shadow, and edge until three-dimensional forms read as a flat sketch. Vides broke into the fine-art world in his hometown, debuting the style at LA's Seventh Letter Gallery in 2018 before taking it into collaborations with Nike, Converse, Fendi, Google, and G-Shock. For Flat Out: The Art of Joshua Vides, that treatment covers more than the five vehicles inside the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery: tire stacks, gas pumps, wall graphics, and oversized garage signage all get the same monochrome line work, folding the entire room into one continuous drawing. Walk far enough into the gallery and the cars stop being the subject: they're just the largest lines in the sketch.

