Diamonds and Rust by Stipan Tadić at James Fuentes features detailed paintings inspired by Los Angeles' layered urban landscape. Moving beyond New York, Tadić explores American cities through a lens shaped by social realism, Croatian folk art, and comic book aesthetics. His works depict iconic sites like Hollywood and the Mayan Theater, capturing contradictions between myth and mundanity, presence and absence, and the city’s unique ability to construct and distort its own image.
