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For years, these artists painted L.A. on fire. Now life is a charred canvas.

Los Angeles artist John Knuth has been setting fires for 20 years, in his paintings. He has painted hot orange flames in Mylar and enamel on wall-size canvases. He has covered a globe in red, making ...
The San Bernardino Sun

Palm trees on fire crackle at Riverside’s The Cheech art museum

Tall, spindly palm trees with their crowns on fire were a familiar sight during the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires. Burning palms became a somber visual shorthand for the fires or simply for life ...
San Gabriel Valley Tribune

Palm trees on fire crackle at Riverside’s The Cheech art museum

Inside Riverside’s Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, two walls in a quiet corner are devoted to paintings of palm trees on fire. Painted in 2021, “Three Studies of Palm Trees” by Perry ...