Design Loves Art: Deep into The Medium with Paul Young (Part 3)

Paul Young's Young Projects gallery at the PDC is gaining popularity in the Design Loves Art program.

Enter the first gallery that Paul calls the 'white box,' and immediately feel like you're in a comfortable living room with wood paneling, carpeting, tables and deep seating. There are remote controls everywhere, so you can feel free to start watching.

A few doors down in the 'black box,' translucent projection screens are arranged along a meandering path--an entirely different, immersive experience. In both environments, Paul achieves expert status in an art form that has few contenders.

"Paul is THE expert in a field where there are very players who can handle the curating and installation aspects technically of ambitious video-based work," said Stefan Simchowitz, a film producer and artistic director. "Video-based work is one of the hardest to deal with spatially. It requires a high degree of professional installation tactics, aesthetic and technological choices. There is no one like Paul in LA."

Paul Young and the Young Projects is a must-see at the PDC. Let us know what you loved about it, and if you haven't yet seen it, you can check it out Tuesday through Friday at the PDC from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Design Loves Art: Deep into The Medium with Paul Young (Part 2 of 3)

At the launch of the PDC's Design Loves Art program two years ago, viewers wandered through an exhibition with more video installations than usual at a gallery show.

Young Projects, designed to be less of a media gallery in the traditional sense, showcases two galleries of different aesthetic approaches. The first offers a gallery/black box setting designed by Joe Day of Deegen Day Design, which presents the work in a more contemporary setting, while the other offers a more home-like environment with state of the art equipment and comfortable seating.

At the two spaces that Paul runs singlehandedly at the PDC, the art ranges from political and technological to sensual, engaging themes and observed trends. All are presented with high-end equipment and inventive arrangement, including 3D animation and computer games, and have ranged from the conceptual to the painterly. He has even covered sensibilities from '80s punk to feminist humor.

Check back with GoDesignGo for more on Young Projects at the PDC and check out the gallery Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

Design Loves Art: Deep into the Medium with Paul Young (Part 1 of 3)

Devoted exclusively to moving imagery, Paul Young's Young Projects gallery opened in October 2009 in the Pacific Design Center (PDC) with two 4,000 square foot gallery spaces. Founded by Paul, a curator, consultant, and writer based in Los Angeles, Young Projects is designed to be less of a “media gallery” in the traditional sense than a true project space.

"I think that Paul's strength resides in his curiosity and persistence," said Christopher Grimes, an LA gallerist. "There is intelligence to the focus he has given to video through his writing and curatorial enterprises."

"Imagine a gallery full of rooms for viewing like they have at the Hammer Museum," said Nira Pereg, a video artist whose work Paul has featured. "That's what Paul is actually doing."

The mission of Young Projects is to operate on several levels: first and foremost, it's dedicated to changing the way in which people think of moving imagery—offering a challenge to the traditional model defined by movies and television, and to see it instead as a concrete art form, much like painting, fine art photography and sculpture. Second, it operates as a project space for both experimental film artists and contemporary artists who are interested in exploring the full capabilities of the medium. Third, it is devoted to providing a viewing space for the highest quality works available—works that rarely, if ever, get shown in Los Angeles.

Stay tuned to GoDesignGo for more on Young Projects at the PDC and check out their gallery Tuesday through Friday from 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.