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, October 31, 2015

Heather Brown "Bedfellows" @ Monte Vista Projects


Sortes, 2015
Oil on canvas
60 x 84 inches




Bedfellows VI, 2015
Ink on paper
24 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches


Snares, 2015
Oil on canvas
60 x 60 inches


How abstraction and figuration can be sutured and conflated through activity such as group groping is worth considering as body and mind interact and reflect continuously.  Titles reinforce the connections and flat-bed picture plane comes to mind also, one that is simultaneously flat and deep.
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