Tea for Two

Artist: Healy, Wayne

Date: 1998

Medium: Ink on paper

Artwork Dimensions: 20 x 26 in.

County Department: Aging and Disabilities

Artwork Site: Los Nietos Community and Senior Center

Supervisorial District: 4

Current Status: On view

About the Artwork: The Los Nietos Community Senior Center, formerly Los Nietos Library, was rededicated as a Community and Senior Center in 2017. As part of the renovation plans for Los Nietos Community Senior Center, the Civic Art Division selected four artists, Wayne Healy, Pola Lopez, Andrea Ramirez, and Laura Vasquez Rodriguez, to provide artworks for the newly renovated facility. The artworks include twelve paintings and limited-edition prints placed in the Center's entrance corridor and community room. They consist of figurative works reflecting a diversity of ages in family friendly depictions of community life and activities consistent with the Center's programming.

About the Artist: Wayne Healy grew up in East Los Angeles, where political events in the 1960s stimulated his commitment to creating socially and culturally relevant public art. In 1975, Healy reunited with grade school friend and fellow artist David Botello to establish the public art team East Los Streetscapers (ELS), going on to paint dozens of murals and complete numerous multimedia public art projects throughout the United States and Europe for more than two decades. In his solo practice, Healy uses drawing, serigraph and mono-silkscreen painting and etching to capture universal themes through the depiction of everyday life. His artwork is noted for its skillful draftsmanship, energetic style, dramatically angled compositions and bold colors.