2025 ADAMS SQUARE EXHIBITS
Protect, Preserve, and Remember
Artist: Laura Green
On exhibit from April 21 - May 30, 2025
Protect, Preserve, and Remember uses Green’s experiences exploring the Southern California region with her family. The inspiration for the installation was imagining the Los Angeles River’s journey from mountains to sea. Each side of the cube showcases a different biome that the LA River travels through, such as mountains, woodlands, chaparral and the coast. The human figures, often children, appear to be on a similar journey. Native flora and fauna are represented on a larger scale to draw attention to their need for protection and preservation.
Green’s intention with this installation is to inspire viewers to learn more about the wildlife that surrounds them in Glendale, and to consider supporting programs that are working to protect it for future generations. Her artistic practice explores her desire to protect, preserve, and remember the time we are currently living in.
Soft Surrealism
Artist: Mandy Palasik
On exhibit from March 3 - April 18, 2025
Soft Surrealism is an abstract sculpture composed of biomorphic inflatables that magnetically connect to form amoeba-like creations. Suspended within the station’s glass architecture, the lightweight elements appear to float, softening corners and framing views on all four sides. At night, colorful beams of light activate the shapes, creating an alluring form that changes with each perspective.
Mandy Palasik Studio is a design practice based in Los Angeles that lies at the confluence of art, architecture, and community. As a site-responsive artist, Palasik's work transcends the confines of any single medium or style, resulting in a portfolio as varied and unique as the communities in which she serves. This evolving and experimental nature lies at the heart of her practice. She seeks to create interactive and playful experiences that ignite curiosity, excitement, wonder, and imagination.
Listen to our Artist Spotlight Series in which Palasik shares her background in architecture, challenges in her career as an artist, and her goals for having Soft Surrealism at the gas station.
Galaxy Mosaic
Artist: OneHouse Arts
On exhibit from January 13 - February 28, 2025
Galaxy Mosaic recreates the brilliant colors of deep space within the Adams Square Mini Park Gas Station. Students’ transparent acrylic paintings of space cover the windows, allowing sunlight to create stained-glass refraction and shadows that move throughout the day with the shifting sun, our closest star. In the center of the room, dozens of foam globes decorated with mosaic patterns hang as a jewel box of distant stars and unknown planets. Over 100 students participated in this piece.
OneHouse Arts is an experimental art school and philosophy dedicated to helping children discover art on their own through inquiry and exploration. They combine the spirit of active research, art experimentation, and self-expression with the cognitive development process of children to improve their growing aesthetic ability and image communication skills while ultimately establishing a more intimate relationship between people and art.