dayoutlast: April 2014

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, April 25, 2014

Note: Page Breaks

Due to larger posts on this blog, I have now started using page breaks. To view full post when applicable, click "Read More" along the lower, left-hand side.

Saturday, April 19, 2014

Grant Barnhart @ Ambach & Rice

Place Out Of View, 2014

oil on drop cloth

40 x 30 inches

The Medicine Within, 2013

oil on pigment stick on canvas

30 x 30 inches

Some Kind of Drug, 2014

oil on drop cloth

68 x 40 inches

Daniel Cummings @ ACME

Drowning and swallowing this text @ LACE

MPA

Double Arrow, 2014

wood, light, shadow

White Easel with Machine Pistol (from the White Easel Series), 1979

mixed media assemblage

105 x 182 x 28 inches

Whitney Bedford @ Susanne Vielmetter

Somewhere between Jack Goldstein and Lita Albuquerque these paintings lie. Unfortunately, I can't tell what they are pushing forward. If they were to be considered in pairs/groups, I could think about a departure in time, but this wasn't the case. Each were to be thought about individually. On their own, they are too slight, thought it's hard not to be seduced by the effect of paint on black as light event.