In his recent series entitled Sky Backdrop, the artist Alex Israel refers to the sky-blue TV studio settings used in the morning television programs of the 1980s. The artist photographed the sunset sky in his native Los Angeles and asked set designers at Warner Brothers to recreate the image on a canvas. The vast and delightful image has been realized to a size matching a standard movie screen – fittingly enough, as the Hollywood dream is the main theme of Israel’s creative work.

Israel was born in 1982 in Los Angeles, California, where he lives and works today.