los angeles art alex israel interview and portrait by OLIVIER ZAHM All artworks courtesy of the artist He recently bought an old movie theater on Pico Boulevard for his studio. He just made a parody of a teen movie in Malibu. He launched a clothing line called “Infrathin,” based on a word from Marcel Duchamp. He sells his own sunglasses, Freeway Eyewear. He’s cool, successful, good-looking, and able to look at his own city the way a tourist does and then manipulate its visual alphabet — the perfect sunset, tinted glasses, surfers, television, movie stars, cactuses, palm trees — and turn them into exciting artworks. Alex Israel incarnates the new California art scene and its laid-back lifestyle. OLIVIER ZAHM — All that you do captures the essence of Los Angeles. The city is really booming these days and attracting so many new people while still embodying the American Dream. So,…