Artwork Detail

For Residential Treatment Program D at the Olive View-UCLA Medical Center, Artist Olalekan Jeyifous created a multi-paneled, aluminum mural titled Canyon Dreamscape, composed of imagery referring to the landscaping and hills to reflect and celebrate the natural environment at the Olive View-UCLA campus. For this mural, Olalekan Jeyifous was inspired by the local the flora and fauna and rolling landforms of the Wilson Canyon terrain, which provides the backdrop for the Olive View Restorative Care Village. This playful artwork celebrates the restorative effect of pastoral landscapes and the important role natural spaces play in improving physical and mental health and well-being.

Olalekan Jeyifous received a BArch from Cornell University and is a Brooklyn-based artist whose work reimagines social spaces that examine the relationship between architecture, community, and the environment. He has exhibited at venues such as Studio Museum in Harlem, the MoMA, the Vitra Design Museum, and the Guggenheim in Bilbao, Spain. In addition to an extensive exhibition history, Jeyifous has spent over a decade creating large-scale installations for a variety of public spaces and was recently commissioned, along with fellow artist Amanda Williams, to create a monument dedicated to Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm as part of the City of New York's "She Built NYC" initiative.Olalekan has been a Wilder Green Fellow at the MacDowell Colony and has completed artist residencies with the Drawing Center's Open Sessions program and the Rockefeller Foundation's Bellagio Center. He has won numerous awards for his artistic practice and is the recipient of a 2021 Fellowship by the United States Artists. To learn more visit: https://jeyifo.us/