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    Alexandra Grant's new coffee table book examines what it means to be a civic artist

    by Deborah Vankin, Los Angeles Times Dec 28, 2022 7 minutes
    "LOVE: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project," by Alexandra Grant.

    In 1980, artist Alexandra Grant, then 7 years old, and her mother set out in a red Chrysler LeBaron headed from Washington, D.C., to Mexico City. Her mother, formerly a professor at Oberlin College, was relocating the two of them so she could take a post as a foreign service officer.

    The Beatles album "Revolver" — one of two cassette tapes they'd brought along on the trip — played on repeat. To this day, the song "For No One" holds special significance for Grant. A lyric from that song inspired a papier-mâché sculpture, "A Love That Should Have Lasted," that Grant created for a 2008 solo show at L.A.'s Honor Fraser Gallery. A photograph of the sculpture, in turn, inspired Grant to trademark what she calls her "LOVE" symbol — a rendering of the word "love," featured in the sculpture — the next year. Those two images, the sculpture and the LOVE symbol, serve as "the visual point of origin" of Grant's now-14-year-old grantLOVE project, an initiative that partners with nonprofits to create editioned, love-themed artworks to generate funds for those nonprofits.

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