dayoutlast: August 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

Thursday, August 30, 2018

Selections from "Made in LA 2018 @ Hammer Museum

EJ Hill

Excellentia, Mollitia, Victoria, 2018

Gelare Khoshgozaran

Medina Wasl: Connecting Town, 2018

Neha Choksi

Everything sunbright (i) in the womb (ii) lives (iii) ever rehearsing the end *indirectly, 2018

Multichannel video installation

John Houck

Sibling Rivalry, 2018

Archival pigment print

The Adjacent End, 2018

Archival Pigment Print

Country General, 2018

Archival Pigment Print

Rosha Yaghmai

Slide Samples (Lures, Myths), 2018

Found and personal artifacts, resin, glass, steel, rust

Dad's Slides, 1969-72

35mm color slides, projector, pedestal

Silicone (Book of Kings, p. 69), 2018

Silicone, eyeshadow, earth pigments, digital, print on silk, tulle, organza, nylon

James Benning

Found Fragments (scorched earth, Ash 01, RED CLOUD), 2016

Three-channel video installation, color, sound

Three looped videos, 75 min each

Left:

Found Fragments II, 2016

Found flag, September 10, 2016

Right:

Che Guevara (dead), 2017

Woven Tapestry

Criminal Complain, 2017

Framed photograph, document, rusted alternator

Eamon Ore-Giron

Breaking A, 2018

Flashe on linen

Angelitos Negros, 2018

Acrylic paint

Jay DeFeo "The Color of Texture" @ Marc Selwyn

Homage to Thomas Albright No. 4, 1983

oil with tape on paper

19 5/8 x 24 3/8 inches

Untitled, 1983

Oil and tape on paper

13 3/4 x 11 inches

Untitled, 1982

oil pastel, chalk and oil with collage and tape on paper

31 x 22 7/16 inches

Untitled (Rear Window series), 1982

Acrylic and mixed media on paper

31 x 22 1/2 inches

Untitled (Rear Window series), 1982

oil pastel, chalk and oil with collage and tape on paper

31 x 23 1/2 inches

Valentine, 1983

oil with collage on paper

11 3/4 x 8 7/8 inches

Untitled, 1982*

Oil on paper

9 3/8 x 13 5/16 inches

Untitled, 1983

oil on paper

14 x 16 3/4 inches

Summer Landscape, 1982

oil on paper

8 x 11 7/8

Untitled, 1986

oil pastel, silver paint and alkyd on paper

10 15/16 x 13 3/4 inches

Summer Landscape, 1982

oil on paper

9 1/8 x 12 15/16

Alabama Hills No. 8: Arctic Sunset, 1986

Oil on linen

17 x 16 inches