Gold Line Metro Art

This page is subdivided by station, beginning with Union Station and ending with the Sierra Madre station. The images and information have been made available courtesy of Metro and through the photographs of Ruth Wallach. Go to the Edward R. Roybal Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension page to see the public art at the stations from Little Tokyo to Atlantic.

In 2008-2009, a collaborative project between the USC Libraries and researcher Michael Several, titled "Going for the Gold: California Stories on the Los Angeles Metro Gold Line: Communities, Public Art, and Placemaking," received funding from the California Council for the Humanities' California Story Fund. The project documents the creation of public art on the Gold Line through oral histories of artists, administratiors, and youth who were involved in the project. Tapes and transcripts of the interviews are archived at the USC Libraries. All entries are written by Michael Several.
• History of the Gold Line from Los Angeles to Pasadena, and the Artist Selection Process

Do not reproduce information from this site without acknowledgement of the artists and their works, or of the authors of this site.

Union Station Gold Line Entry Portal

• Roy Nicholson, Solar Shifts San Bernardino and Santa Monica, 2006.

Chinatown

• Image of the Chinatown station, 2003
• Chusien Chang, The Wheels of Change, 2003
• Description of the history and design of The Wheels of Change.
• Yong bell

Lincoln Heights/Cypress Park

• Cheri Gaulke, Water Street: River of Dreams, 2003
  Triptych story fence.
  Gabrielino woman at the Los Angeles River.
  
• Description of the history and design of Water Street: River of Dreams.

Heritage Square/Arroyo

• Roberto L. Delgado, El Quetzalcoatl de Xochicalco and Le Gente del Pueblo, 2003
• Description of the history and design of El Quetzalcoatl de Xochicalco and Le Gente del Pueblo

Southwest Museum

• Teddy Sandoval (artist) and Paul Polubinskas (ceramicist), Highland Park Gateway, 2003
  Detail of the columns
  Detail of the ceramic tiles at the base of the columns
• Description of the history and design of Highland Park Gateway.

Highland Park

• Jud Fine, Stone Tree Inverted Post (Copper Bound Water Light), 2003
• Description of the history and design of Stone Tree Inverted Post.

Mission

• Michael Stutz, Astride-Aside, 2003
• Description of the history and design of Astride-Aside.

Fillmore

• Michael C. McMillen, Geologica 42, 2003
• Description of the history and design of Geologica 42.

Del Mar

• Ries Niemi, Kinetic Energy, 2003
• Description of the history and design of Kinetic Energy.

Memorial Park

• John Valadez, The First Artists in Southern California: A Short Story, 2003
  
• Description of the history and design of The First Artists in Southern California.

Lake

• Pat Ward Williams, Everyday People, 2003
  External view of the station entry
  Portraits of people emblazoned on glass
• Description of the history and design of Everyday People.

Allen

• Michael Amescua, Rider's Dream, 2003
  
• Description of the history and design of Rider's Dream.

Sierra Madre Villa

• Tony Gleaton, Untitled, 2003.
  • Description of the history and design of Gleaton's Untitled work.
• Beth Thielen, Images of Commonality/Nature and Movement, 2003. Alignment and Sierra Madre Villa Parking and Bus Facility
  Images of red-tailed hawk, an antelope, mountains and arroyo, an oak tree, and a Gabrielino woman embossed on the walls by the parking structure elevators.
  • Description of the history and design of Beth Thielen's work for the Gold Line.
  • Images along the Gold Line alignment.

Edward R. Roybal Metro Gold Line Eastside Extension

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