dayoutlast: February 2018

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, February 23, 2018

Judy Fiskin @ Richard Telles

There is this kind of charm in viewing Fiskin's work that is not easily explained with words but rather some kind of knowing kinship either in terms of attentions/intentions or else similar cultural overtones, the similar way in which my my grandmother might arrange the buffet or the china hutch for herself, or the party or the bazaar booth.

I had taken this photo in passing just days before viewing this show (see how it relates to the photo directly above). Again, it is a curious kinship of attentions, especially when viewing a stream of fascinating images in such a context, a flatscreen inside an art gallery and also along the way in the world at large.

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Patrick Wilson @ Susanne Vilemetter

Astronaut, 2017

Acrylic on canvas

86 x 39 inches

Professor, 2017

Acrylic on canvas

86 x 39 inches

Violet Return, 2017

Acrylic on canvas

41 x 37 inches

Push, 2017

Acrylic on canvas

22 x 22 inches

Storm Swell, 2017

Acrylic on canvas

67 x 72 inches

Jeremy Blake "Station to Station" @ Honor Fraser

Station to Station 1: Robert Moses Terminal, 2001

Single Channel digital animation with sound on DVD

TRT: 16 minute continuous loop

Edition of 8

Station to Station 1: Robert Moses Terminal, 2001 and Station to Station 2: Fordham Gneiss, 2001

Station to Station 1: Robert Moses Terminal, 2001

Single Channel digital animation with sound on DVD

TRT: 16 minute continuous loop

Edition of 8

Station to Station 2: Fordham Gneiss, 2001 and Station to Station 3: Carbon Sink Park, 2001

Station to Station 3: Carbon Sink Park, 2001

Single Channel digital animation with sound on DVD

TRT: 16 minute continuous loop

Edition of 8

Station to Station 3: Carbon Sink Park, 2001 and Station to Station 4: Slumber Line, 2001

Station to Station 4: Slumber Line, 2001

Single Channel digital animation with sound on DVD

TRT: 16 minute continuous loop

Edition of 8

Station to Station 3: Carbon Sink Park, 2001 and Station to Station 4: Slumber Line, 2001

Station to Station 5: Indigo Heights, 2001

Single Channel digital animation with sound on DVD

TRT: 16 minute continuous loop

Edition of 8

Matsumi Kanemitsu "East/West" @ Louis Stern

Nov #2, 1968

Acrylic on canvas

30 1/2 x 22 1/2

Judith Linhares "The Way She Goes to Town" @ Various Small Fires

Those expecting straight documentation will be disappointed by the coverage of this show. I was interested in the bold use of color and not the subject matter. So, I did my best to capture a few nice ones. They would make really nice paintings all on their own. As they stand here on this blog, I think that they make nice photos.