Mathew Mackendrick; Artist, Co-Creator of ‘Metro Open Air Wall’

Mathew Mackendrick, 33, a modern artist who helped create the “Metro Open Air Wall” for Los Angeles’ new subway system. He studied art at UC Berkeley and CalArts and had presented solo exhibitions of his paintings at the Roy Boyd Gallery and Glenn-Dash Gallery. Mackendrick was one of 10 American artists whose work was selected for the International Prize Exhibition of 1991, which toured Milan, Rome, Paris, London, New York and Los Angeles. Two years ago he worked with artist David Hollen to “echo the Deco” of the Wiltern Theatre in the Metro Red Line wall along the subway line at Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue. Used as a barrier to enclose construction of a subway station, the wall was designed to present changing exhibits by modern artists. On Wednesday in Westwood of complications of AIDS.