dayoutlast: March 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, March 23, 2018

Aaron Wrinkle "LA Salon" @ there-there

VGC 10 with Blue Form/Sleeper, 2018

Flashe and acrylic on cotton bed sheet

77 x 77 inches

Biomorphic. cf. Miro

VGC 7 Blue/The Fall, 2018

Flashe on cotton

cf. Baziotes

VGC 9/Cut + Paste, 2018

Flashe, acrylic, and enamel on canvas on board with aluminum frame

Pinwheel. Kaleidoscope. Pastiche. Breaking apart. Work rags. Car and painting.

America Now/Multi Colored, 2017

Acrylic, enamel and spray paint on found educational banner

63 x 29 inches

Flag. Color. Muddled. cf. Jasper Johns (maybe)

VGC 00/Transmitter, 2016

Acrylic, enamel and industrial filler on canvas

39 x 26 inches

Contained. Not fussy.

Farm Form 1/Missouri, 2016

Auto enamel and industrial filler on canvas

53 x 33 inches

Farm Form 1/Missouri, 2016

Auto enamel and industrial filler on canvas

55 x 33 inches

GOD 999/Black Form, 2016

Scary paint, acrylic, enamel and oil on found canvas in artist frame

60 x 85 inches

The Kiss with Moon/Black, 2014

Acrylic on canvas

96 x 48 inches

Folky. Materials born of necessity (frames, surfaces). Thinking born of a similar sense of need?

These paintings are like a young girl playing with a super ball. Catch. Release. Move. Chase. Stop. Continue. Try again. Playful. Short-lived. Repeat. And also like handling slime.

An honest/earnest inquiry.