El Segundo Medical Complex
2110 E. El Segundo Blvd. El Segundo, CA
Client: Torrance Memorial Medical Center & Cedars-Sinai
Architect: c/a Architects
Contractor: Millie and Severson
Size: 2 stories, 42,000 SF
A joint development by Torrance Memorial and Cedars-Sinai within the new Nash Street Exchange in El Segundo, this 42,000 SF medical building hosts a range of health suites: urgent care, primary care, imaging, endoscopy, women’s health, pediatrics, and multi-speciality. Our art program resonated with both hosting organizations, providing original key works in each elevator lobby, a cohesive collection of contemporary works throughout main corridors, and specialized, themed groupings per suite. Artwork frequently nods to the nearby coast, with sun drenched and coastal water color palettes highlighted with energetic pops of color, and imagery is often abstracted for a more contemporary feel to intrique the viewer.
The bright, inviting, state-of-the-art facility welcomed artwork on a variety of substrates, including wood, metal, and canvas, eliciting surprise and interest as viewers move through the space. Two key pieces featuring particularly unique materials - an ‘excavation-style’ layered mixed-media piece, sanded down to create a calming, water reflection composition, and a layered stainless steel mesh piece, ‘drawn’ upon with a blow torch to create organic linework.
“Between Light and Air” by Mirang Wonne. Northern California artist Mirang Wonne seeks to embody natural forms in unexpected mediums. She uses primarily industrial materials that paradoxically amplify the organic intensity of those forms, capitalizing on their physical and optical peculiarities. In Between Light and Air, acrylic paint is overlaid with stainless steel mesh that Wonne “draws” upon with a blowtorch. The piece is characterized by its delicate interwoven network of tendrils, implying both the fragility and vitality of nature: a reminder of the enduring beauty and preciousness of life.
Giclees on canvas by Nevada City artist LeeAnn Brook in the primary care waiting area, with the Mirang Wonne key piece visible in the elevator lobby. Careful art location planning created a sense of flow and connectivity between public areas and specialty suites.
Colorful, organic swirls on circular wooden boards suggest imagery of curling ocean waves and water washing over beach sand.
Graphic and colorful original paintings by Sarah Gayle Carter provide an update to traditional landscape imagery in the multi-speciality suite.
A long, beige central corridor links the suites on each floor. Artwork of different shapes, sizes, and substrates help provide way finding and visual breaks in these areas.
A calming horizon by Micah Crandall-Bear in the urgent care waiting area.
The pediatric suite features a series of three flight-themed pieces produced on wood board.
A series of botanical-based prints by Christine Nguyen.
“Ocean Flight” by Audra Weaver. A native to Southern California, Audra Weaser’s work focuses on the abstraction of natural landscapes. Weaser builds layers of color to form intuitive, organic compositions, then uses a sanding process to navigate back into the surface, excavating an image of motion and presence from a white expansion. In Ocean Flight, Weaser explores water’s capacity to reflect new representations of the sky, clouds, and sunlight, revealing an essence of what is unseen and translating it into a visual and poetic experience.