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Reseda Station

Now and Then, 2005
Jody Zellen, artist

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Jody Zellen designed terrazzo paving areas and porcelain enamel steel panels for station platforms.

Artwork designs incorporate images from the San Fernando Valley that trace its architectural history and its relationship to the city of Los Angeles. Text based work includes a verse from the San Fernando Valley song and a quote by Catherine Mulholland. The song was written by Gordon Jenkins and sung by Roy Rogers, in the 1943 Republic Pictures western “San Fernando Valley”. The selected verse reads:

I’m gonna settle down and never more roam, and make the San Fernando Valley my home.

“When making public artworks, I like to take into consideration the site and the architecture of the area. Usually my projects involve an integration of historical and contemporary imagery that are juxtaposed to create a unique artwork. My works deal with themes relating to architecture and the city and by placing the work in the public realm and in the actual city, it has a greater impact and reaches more people than when it is placed on a gallery wall.”

Jody Zellen has a Master of Fine Arts from California Institute of the Arts and is a recipient of a 2004 COLA Grant, Durfee ARC Grant, a California Arts Council individual fellowship and an Aaron Siskind fellowship. Her commissioned public art projects include artwork for the window façade for the West Valley Police Station in Reseda, a series of steel elevator doors for the Capital Area East End Complex in Sacramento, and 225 eight by eight inch ceramic tiles for the Los Angeles Pan Pacific Recreation Center, where her work traces the history of the Streamline Moderne and Art Deco styles of architecture.