As Part of the ‘Moving Image Media Art’ Exhibition Series, the City of West Hollywood Presents the Next Artists and Exhibitions

The City of West Hollywood announces the debuts of the next exhibitions in the Moving Image Media Art (MIMA) program. Artworks by artists Yozmit The Dogstar, Clarissa Tossin, Alison O'Daniel, Greg Jenkins, Luciana Abait, Richard Mapes, Katya Ivanova, and Monroe Isenberg will display at the top of every hour on various digital billboards on Sunset Boulevard from Monday, June 1, 2026 through Wednesday, September 30, 2026. Biographical information for each of the artists can be found at go.weho.org/mima.

Stairways, by Yozmit The Dogstar, is a silent, meditative video performance tracing a cyclical journey of ascent and descent through the stairwells of a Parisian atrium. Two mirrored figures move in parallel - separate yet intimately linked - creating a visual metaphor for duality, transformation, and the search for reunification of self. The work invites viewers to contemplate fluid identity and the dissolution of perceived barriers. The artwork can be seen at the top of every hour on the digital billboard at 8497 Sunset Boulevard (The Now).

Streamlined: Belterra, Amazônia / Alberta, Michigan, by Clarissa Tossin, presents a mirrored diptych of two company-built towns - one in the Brazilian Amazon and one in Michigan's Upper Peninsula - constructed in 1935 to supply materials for Model T vehicle production. By aligning the rhythms, architecture, and daily life of these distant sites, the work reveals the global entanglements of extraction economies and places a quietly reflective narrative within the fast-paced landscape of Sunset Boulevard. Presented at the top of the hour on the digital billboard at 8501 Sunset Boulevard (Sun Cienega).

Hand Shapes and Scene Numbers, by Alison O'Daniel, features Deaf artist Christine Sun Kim signing scene numbers from O'Daniel's film The Tuba Thieves. Focusing closely on the artist's painted left hand and overlaying color and black-and-white video, the work creates a visual and temporal dissonance that encourages viewers to reconsider sound through sight and to reflect on access, communication, and embodied listening. The artwork can be seen at the top of and at half past the hour on the digital billboard at 8730 Sunset Boulevard (The Whorl).

Motor Moter Blue (Recline), by Greg Jenkins, moves through mist-laden Appalachian landscapes in the aftermath of a car race, using the deserted environment as a contemplative lens on environmental fragility, cultural mythologies, and overlooked American geographies. The serene pacing and haunting vistas invite viewers to rethink their relationship to land, industry, and the hidden histories embedded in the natural world. Presented at the top of and at half past the hour on the digital billboard at 8743 Sunset Boulevard (Invisible Frame).

LAND, by Luciana Abait, transforms familiar U.S. landscapes into fantastical terrains infused with saturated color, shifting light, and celestial motifs. Drawing from the artist's own photographic archives and digital animation processes, the piece evokes belonging and shared experience, offering passersby a momentary escape into a world where the sky, terrain, and horizon invite reflection on our collective ties to the planet. The artwork can be seen at the top of and at half past the hour on the digital billboard at 8775 Sunset Boulevard (Sunset Spectacular).

Lucid Dream, by Richard Mapes, previously announced for an earlier exhibition period but delayed due to unforeseen circumstances, will debut during this cycle. The work imagines a post-anthropocene world in which a global AI - accidentally fused with fairytale data - carries out its duties guided equally by folklore and infrastructure logic. Through intricate real-time-rendered environments, the piece reflects on myth, memory, and the stories embedded in the built world, offering a speculative vision of an AI-shaped future that remains strangely human. The artwork can be seen at the top of and at half past the hour on the digital billboard at 8901 Sunset Boulevard (Whisky A Go Go).

Power Trip, by Katya Ivanova, is a two-act audiovisual collage exploring electricity as both lifeforce and cultural engine. Animated pylons, pulsing guitars, and glitch-infused tarot imagery cascade across the screen as the system approaches overload, merging celebration and critique of the power structures - technical, emotional, and societal - that bind and energize us, echoing the legacy of the Rainbow and Roxy as sites of electric rebellion. The artwork can be seen at the top of and at half past the hour on the digital billboard at 9015 Sunset Boulevard (Rainbow/Roxy).

Harbinger, by Monroe Isenberg, documents mirrored, spiked performers traversing the Mojave Desert in a choreographic dialogue with wind, light, and terrain. Shot amid vast, shifting landscapes, the work invites contemplation of climate, migration, and the human presence within fragile ecosystems, illuminating the tension between resilience, adaptation, and the unknown futures we collectively approach. The artwork can be seen can be seen at the top of and at half past the hour on the digital billboard at 9157 Sunset Boulevard (Streamlined Arbor).

MIMA is an ongoing exhibition series of moving image media artworks on multiple digital billboards at various locations along Sunset Boulevard. The goals of the MIMA Program are to inspire conversation and enhance the human experience of the Sunset Strip.

The Moving Image Media Art Program (MIMA) is a City of West Hollywood exhibition series administered by the Arts Division, as part of its Art on the Outside Program, and is presented with the Sunset Arts and Advertising Program. MIMA offers artists the opportunity, and the funding, to present art that engages with the unique visual landscape of the Sunset Strip. Artists exhibited in the program are selected from the MIMA Prequalified List, a rolling, open-call for moving image media artists, curators, and non-profit arts organizations, with applications reviewed bi-annually by the City of West Hollywood's Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission, in May and November. The MIMA Prequalified List includes a diverse list of artists of all career levels; from emerging to internationally recognized. Funding for the program comes from revenue generated by the billboards.

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