LACMA
Los Angeles, CA
Paul Comstock is the first Landscape Design Artist to be included in the development of Robert Irwin’s Primal Palm Garden installation at the Renzo Piano designed Broad Contemporary Art Museum and Resnick Pavilion at LACMA. The installation is comprised of over a hundred palms, cycads, and tree ferns, some of them quite rare. Cycads selected for the installation are among the first conifers, dating back to the Triassic Period, still thriving on earth, a nod to the nearby La Brea Tar Pits and its ice age discoveries.
“...a very special person and plantsman. Paul introduced me to a unique palate of material to meet the criteria of approaching a landscape project from an artist’s sensibility. What was really unique about Paul...on a series of wide ranging expeditions to locate and evaluate plant material, Paul wove a story for me...a history of plant life over the millennium...its botanical, cultural and social significances. It was a history of relevance for the uninitiated audiences of an art museum. Paul has added a richness to my view of landscape as a credible artists medium.”