The Metro Art Passageway Gallery features exhibitions of regional significance. It showcases portraiture, landscape, architecture, abstraction and beyond. The ever-changing exhibitions are designed to appeal to a wide variety of ages, backgrounds and tastes at the LA landmark.
Artworks by Pelle Cass transform athletic fields and courts into exuberant stages of stop-motion accumulations. Exploring the concept of play, Cass composes densely populated images where entire games unfold at once. In these nearly human-scaled photographs, players multiply, balls arc in constellations, and bodies torque in looping rhythms.
Showcased just as Los Angeles prepares to welcome the world for major sporting events, Play arrives at a moment when Union Station will serve as both gateway and gathering space for visitors traveling across the region and beyond.
Installed across 36 illuminated lightboxes in the new Metro Art Passageway Gallery at Union Station, Play transforms a highly active public walkway into a vibrant study of movement, rhythm and collective energy. Located within one of Los Angeles’ busiest transportation hubs — where Metro riders, regional commuters, Amtrak passengers and international visitors converge daily — the exhibition reflects the constant flow of people passing through the station.
