Green Line Metro Art

This page is subdivided by station, beginning with I-605/I-105 and going west. The images and information have been made available courtesy of MTA and from Ruth Wallach, USC. Do not reproduce information from this site without acknowledgement of the artists and their works, or of the authors of this site.

I-605/I-105

• Meg Cranston, Suka: Place of the Bees, 1995 (Caltrans, architect)
  • Detail of honeycomb tile design on the platform
  • Sculpture of a bee
  • Details of the station

Lakewood/I-105

Erika Rothenberg, Wall of UnFame, 1995 (Caltrans, architect)
• Detail
• Detail

Long Beach/I-105

• Sally Weber, Celestial Chance, 1995 (Caltrans, architect)
  • Detail of the tile mural replicating a Chumash painting

Imperial/Wilmington

• Joe Sam, Hide-n-Seek, 1995
  • View of the lower part of the station, where the Metro Blue Line platform is located
  • You smile figure
  • Laura funny figure
  • Fun figure
  • Detail of the station

Avalon/I-105

• Willie Middlebrook, Portrait of My People #619, 1995 (Caltrans, architect)
• John Outterbridge, Sliced Pyramid, 1995 (Caltrans, architect)
• Stanley Wilson, Bridge of Culture, 1995 (Caltrans, architect)

Harbor Freeway/I-105

• Steve Appleton, Locus: City Imprints, 1995 (Caltrans, architect)
  • Detail of the sculptures on the escalator column, Harbor Freeway level
  • Detail of the pavement, Harbor Freeway level
  • Detail of the Harbor freeway level
  • Detail of the bench, I-105 freeway level

Vermont/I-105

• Kim Yasuda and Torgen Johnson, real green, 1995 (Caltrans, architect).
  • Another view of the model
  • Tile mural of a tree
  • Wishing well with cascading letters

Crenshaw/I-105

• Buzz Spector, Crenshaw Stories, 1995 (Caltrans, architect)
  • Detail with open book bench
  • Detail with personal stories on tiles
  • Detail of tiles with book image

Hawthorne/I-105

• Mineko Grimmer, Companions, 1995 (Caltrans, architect)

Aviation/I-105

• Richard Turner, Untitled, 1995 (Escudero-Fribourg Architects)
  • Detail of textual panel
  • Detail of furniture

Mariposa/Nash

• Charles Dickson, Divine Order, 1995 (Escudero-Fribourg Architects)
  • Detail of soaring human spirit
  • Platform with butterfly designs
  • Windscreens
  • Imprints of hands, feet, and butterflies
  • Detail of supporting column

El Segundo/Nash

• Daniel Martinez, For Your Intellectual Entertainment, 1995 (Escudero-Fribourg Architects)
  • Detail of handrail with imprint of artist's hand
  • Detail of the station
  • Detail of the chairs

Douglas/Rosecrans

• Renee Petropoulos, Untitled, 1995 (Escudero-Fribourg Architects). This project was funded in part by Continental Development Corporation.
  • Detail of the shield
  • Detail of the station
  • Detail of stairs with commentary

Marine/Redondo

Carl Cheng, Space Information Station, 1995 (Escudero-Fribourg Architects)
• Detail of an embedded aerospace instrument
• Detail of man's footrpint on the moon
• Other details of the station

9/2004