dayoutlast: November 2013

dayoutlast is a record of my direct engagement with mostly contemporary art, mostly Los Angelean.

As this blog has evolved since its 2010 inception, so has my perspective. What I once perceived as central within the investigation was what was central, literally, within the photographic frame that I shared here. While still an important consideration, such thinking has also given way to more peripheral considerations, ones also accompanied occasionally by text (written manifestation of thought) and the oscillations between them. What's missing here are larger unknowns surrounding issues of presentation and representation; the amount of time and space it actually takes to accomplish such first-hand observations; and the quandaries between documentation and interpretation.

Despite my attempt to communicate here with image and text what is essential in some respect about the artwork, neither representation should ever be considered a substitution for the primary viewing experience. Of course, occasionally there are exceptions.

Most of the time, these posts are merely remnants---residual fragments---from my last day out.

--Justin Lowman

Friday, November 15, 2013

Pilar Wiley stoneware in "Near Dark" @ Young Art

Jed Ochmanek in "Near Dark" @ Young Art

"Extrusion," 2013, cement, 48 x 36 x 2 inches

Nam Jun Paik @ Thomas Solomon

T'ang Dynasty, 1988

Acrylic on canvas

48 x 61 x 2 inches

Rasmus Rohling @ Human Resources

Friday, November 8, 2013

Francois Morellet @ Kayne Griffin Corcoran

approaching the gallery...

NoendneoN, 2013

29 blue neon tubes 200cm and transformers

about 37 1/2 x 15 x 28 feet

Unique

Tamponnade n 3, 2013

black tape 2.5 cm directly on the wall

106 x 137 7/10 inches

Unique

Tamponnade n 2, 2013

black tape 2.5 cm directly on wall

118 x 151 1/2 inches

Unique

Installation View

2+4 Angles droits, 2012

white neon tubes, acrylic on canvas on wood

59 x 57 1/4 inches

Edition 2 of 3

Enfilade, n 3, 2013

white neon tubes, acrylic on canvas on wood

72 1/4 x 94 4/5 inches

Unique

Double sens n 4, 2013

white neon tubes, acrylic on canvas on wood

55 1/2 x 64 1/2 inches

Unique

Entre deux mers n 2, 2013

acrylic on canvas on wood and stainless steel

67 x 104 inches (9 4/5 inches between the 2 canvas)

Edition 1 of 3

While I was viewing the show near closing time, the gallery turned off several works prematurely not knowing someone was there. I reveled in the event for several reasons. The following are examples of what it looked like.

Saturday, November 2, 2013

Neil Beloufa "Speaking About Best" @ Francois Ghebaly

The act of looking and listening. Hodge lodge (an autofill typo that I somehow like better than "podge.") Connections (tenuous, "real," bogus...). Landscape. Overwrought maquettes at the details. To sit and think or not (cf. Rodin, perhaps only obliquely). "The Dan Graham Problem..." Transparency and deflection. Seriality. Difficult to differentiate between what is intentional and what is given (circumscribed?) by the space. Non-functional design. Dissonance. Sometimes competing and confusing forces can be productive; in this instance, it's not clear what is being put forward other than attention to attention deficit. Look to Dave Hullfish Bailey or Fischli & Weiss for a more coherent exposition of such concerns, the flow of energy and information. Portals, dimensions, and sensory overload (the new anxiety rooted in the current system of exchange---the internet).