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.

Saturday, July 8, 2017

Michael Kindred Knight "Deep End" @ Luis de Jesus


Drifter, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
41 x 41 inches





Southpaw, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
41 x 41 inches



Manito, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 18 inches



Barefoot, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
41 x 41 inches



Sideways, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
18 x 18 inches





Deep End, 2017
Acrylic on canvas
41 X 41 inches
  


Upon viewing, I couldn't quite decide... Something about the deliberate, confident layered effects of using paint, which is to say color, plain and simple (yet not)... Somewhere between hackneyed, tried and true abstraction and something else... Then, with titles, it dawned on me... A sublime engagement with modestly-sized, square paintings in a post abstract painting world. And yet, applied paint, manipulated color honors edge and control.



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