His paintings are, in effect, portraits of these things, infused with some of the sexy, cartoony weirdness of George Condo's work.
What critics like DeVita want, in other words, is a return to the world of Freireich's N.C.I., where clinicians had the freedom to tinker and improvise, and DeVita's portrait of the way things were gives us a glimpse of what the future may look like.
If what he said was telling, the fact that he said it was even more so: a portrait of the way things sometimes are at a club where Neville admits feeling people greeting him with looks that said "you won't be here for long"; where, if they did, they were right.
I tried lots of things – portrait painting, murals, illustration – and I could just about make a living but it really wasn't going anywhere".
He finally got to create a portrait of the real thing last summer after Barack Obama was chosen as the Democratic nominee.
It's self prophetic, a self-portrait of this thing being born out of me.
Now an exhibition called A Strong Sweet Smell of Incense aims to recognise the celebrity art dealer's role in bringing together artists, musicians and actors during the decade's social revolution by creating a portrait of him "through the things he loved".
Four years in the making, "Marwencol" emerges as a number of things: an absorbing portrait of an outsider artist; a fascinating journey from near-death to active life; a meditation on the brain's ability to forge new pathways when old ones have been destroyed.
The person responsible for handling the financial end of things at Sound Portraits is Stacy Abramson, 29, the company's managing editor and educational director.
In this way, Landau's photos are not only landscapes, but they're also portraits of a city made up of things Angelenos left behind, physically, emotionally, and spiritually.
