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, March 3, 2018

Hugh Scott-Douglas "฿o₫៛€$" @ Blum & Poe


GHOSTS, 2016
Digital Video
Total Running Time: 3 minutes 36 seconds looped
Installed dimensions variable






Cymatics. Video. Warp and weft.
How sound organizes in ways that can be seen visually, like weaving patterns, north/south intertwined with east/west, directional coordinates in flux.



Statics and dynamics. Paintings and video.
Physical qualities of movement as well as an alternate description of "noise."





Triple-Star, 2017
UV-cured inkjet print and digitally printed resin on canvas
80 x 120 inches




Magnetism. Polarity. Wave theory. 
The way things move according to physical properties.
Direction. Current. Currency.


Bossa Nova, 2017
UV-cured inkjet print and digitally printed resin on canvas
80 x 53 inches








cf. Adrian Paules (left) or Sterling Ruby (right)



27:1x MM 1:3x CM, 2017
Black Magic patina and protective lacquer on mild steel
96 x 24 3/8 x 10 3/4 inches




Floor and sculpture serendipity.
How the elements and proportions interact with the given space, a happy accident with this installation, seemingly without intent.




3:1x IN 1:1x CM, 2017
Black Magic patina and protective lacquer on mild steel
93 1/2 x 28 3/8 x 20 inches








cf. Robert Irwin. 






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