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The singular vision of Kenny Scharf comes alive in the artist's ecstatic LA garden

- MAYER RUS

From the time Kenny Scharf emerged on New York City’s downtown art scene in the 1980s, his elastic, fantastic practice has encompassed painting, sculpture, video, fashion, performance, and installation art. To these various disciplines one can now add landscape design.

The garden at his Los Angeles home is, predictably, bonkers—a giddy wonderland of palm trees, cacti, and succulents mixed with decades-spanning artworks, ad hoc Day-Glo interventions, and plenty of Flintstones iconography. Like everything he creates, the garden proffers an invitation into the world of Kenny Scharf and his fractured fairy tale of cartoon-inspired surrealism and zany delight.