dayoutlast: May 2017

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, May 26, 2017

Diana Thater "A Runaway World" @ The Mistake Room

Intersections.

Mediated landscape and animal kingdom.

Viewership. Confrontation. Animals and humans equalized within video space.

James Herman "Glass Island Studio" @ Ibid

Dwelling, 2017

plywood, redwood, found eucalyptus wood, bamboo, polycarbonate, metal roofing, glass, sink hardware, soil

Walls are paintings. Grain.

Cycles, sustainability, and flux.

Dave Hullfish-Bailey

Andrea Zittell meets Simon Rhodia meets Robert Gober.

Gallery setting makes it quaint and safe rather than vital and risky.

Garden Shelf, 2015

plywood, cement, wood, glass

19 x 12 x 5 1/2 inches

Shower Hour, 2017

cement, shells, currency, rocks, marbles, bottle caps, mosaic, tile, glass

73 (diameter) x 1 1/2 inches

Holistic integrity.

Mauna Kea, 2017

acrylic on panel

78 x 50 x 1 1/2 inches

Paintings are walls. Grain.

Walkabout, 2017

plywood, found wood, bottle cap, cement glass

37 x 25 inches

Dianna Molzan "Usirpico" @ Kristina Kite

Untitled, 2016-2017

oil on canvas

30 x 23 x 3 inches

Fabric association. Totes. Pillows.

Tribal. Totemic. Blinky Palermo.

Untitled, 2017

oil on linen and canvas

38 x 9 x 5 inches

Untitled, 2017

oil on canvas and cotton batting

34 x 25 x 3 inches

Context. Floor.

Untitled, 2015-2017

oil on canvas

61 x 45 inches

Painting recall 2010 @ Overduin & Kite "The Case of the Strand." Faux finish. Carpet, pie shapes. Where the triangle meets the curl.

Untitled, 2016-2017

oil on jute with wooden dowels

30 x 24 x 3 inches

Pegboard. Dowels. Towels?

Untitled, 2016-2017

oil on canvas with Los Angeles Daily Times Morning Edition, August 16, 1926

36 1/2 x 17 1/2 x 4 inches

Chimes. Cell phone covers. Tactile (sometimes literal, sometimes illusion (the fussy faux dabbing, again)). Surface of cropped shrub/bush. Turf. Synthetic.