For 17 years Lauren Halsey has dreamed of creating a monumental work of installation art for — and about — her South Los Angeles neighborhood, and on Monday she released the first renderings for the project, which has grown into a public sculpture park scheduled to open next spring.

Construction has already begun on the project, titled “sister dreamer, lauren halsey’s architectural ode to tha surge n splurge of south central los angeles,” which will rise on a vacant lot whose exact location has not yet been disclosed. Renderings for the temporary park, scheduled to close in fall 2026, reveal a gleaming white courtyard reminiscent of earlier iterations of Halsey’s project at the Hammer Museum in L.A. and the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.

Eight sphinxes and eight Hathoric columns will be carved with images that are meaningful to Halsey, including personal heroes, family, friends, community activists and organizers. Surrounding walls and a cube-like central seating area will be constructed with glass-fiber-reinforced concrete panels, and native plants will ring the project.

The park received crucial support from the Mellon Foundation’s Monuments Project and is being presented by the nonprofit arts organization Los Angeles Nomadic Division, which specializes in site-specific public art and programs. LAND co-founder Christine Y. Kim is the project’s curator and co-producer.

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