Contributors
Sheila Klein
Sheila Klein, visual artist, straddles the worlds of Art and Architecture. Klein has been called "Chief Retranslator of Everyday Objects and a manipulator of familiar and archetypal images."
Klein conceptualized and installed Vermonica on the corner of Vermont and Santa Monica Boulevard back in 1993. She incorporates the intimate domestic scale of candlesticks into an Urban Candelabra for the household of the street. Vermonica seeks to uncover romantic truths about the city. By accenting one overlooked layer of our environment, Klein encourages further consideration of all our urban layers.
Kim Cooper
& Richard Schave
Kim and Richard were instrumental in advocating for the rebuilding of Vermonica in 2020. Through their blog, Esotouric, they have fought for Vermonica and countless other historic preservation issues while offering tours of LA and digging ever deeper into the secret heart of the city they love.
Loren Amador
Loren Amador, founder of Amador Architecture, was instrumental in the planning and execution of the 2020 reinstallation of Vermonica. They were the student and subsequent hire by Norman Millar, past partner of Sheila Klein in the art and architecture firm A2Z.
L.A. Bureau of Street Lighting
The Bureau of Street Lighting is one of five Bureaus in the Department of Public Works. The Bureau of Street Lighting is responsible for the design, construction, operation, maintenance and repair of the street lighting system within the City of Los Angeles. There are currently more than 210,000 lights in the City consisting of more than 400 designs.
Ian Byers-Gamber
Ian Byers-Gamber is a Los Angeles-based artist and art documentarian, he documented the 2020 reinstallation of Vermonica. In both capacities, his work often involves producing visual archives for and around arts spaces. His photographs propose alternate ways of looking at existing archives while imagining new ones altogether. His artwork has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, the Chan Gallery at Pomona College, the Lucas Artists' Residency at the Montalvo Arts Center, and several art books of note, including the Huntington Library’s recent retrospective Nineteen Nineteen.
Glen Norman
Beginning with a childhood interest in street lights, Glen Norman has been documenting Los Angeles street lights for over 50 years through photography and writing.
Learn more aboug Glen and his connection with Vermonica here