Image (C) Brandon Tauszik

PAC LA is proud to host a new solo exhibition by local photographer and filmmaker Brandon Tauszik. In Water & Power, his photographs trace a vast and largely unseen network that sustains life in this city.

From the artist: In the midst of Los Angeles, with its gardens and free-flowing water, you can forget how stacked the odds are against human civilization. It seems given: There is a city, therefore there is water. To see why the order is actually reversed, you’d have to visit the Owens River Valley, an arid wasteland created when the growing city of Los Angeles decidedi n 1905 to suck it dry. In the 200 miles between here and there are countless structures that instantly dispel any given-ness one feels from within the city: the monumental, rusted pipes transporting Sierran snowmelt; the concrete channels across cracked, creosote-studded earth; the 100-year old hydroelectric power plants full of esoteric dials and gauges, running the water through turbines. Pretty soon, the correct sequence reveals itself: There is water — which we went to extraordinary lengths to move — therefore there is a city.

Through April 2026 | FREE - by Appointment

The Reef in Downtown LA - PAC LA Space