dayoutlast: August 2022

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

Saturday, August 27, 2022

Anthony Pearson "Casements" @ David Kordansky

Untitled (Casement), 2021

linen embedded in pigmented Hydrocal

54 1/4 x 41 1/8 x 2 7/8 inches

(137.8 x 104.5 x 7.3cm)

Untitled (Coupled Casement), 2022
cotton Spandex embedded in pigmented Hydrocal
15 x 16 x 3 3/8 inches

(38.1 x 40.6 x 8.6 cm)

Untitled (Casement), 2022
cotton Spandex embedded in pigmented Hydrocal
53 1/4 x 18 1/4 x 1 1/2 inches

(135.3 x 46.4 x 3.8 cm)

Untitled (Coupled Casement), 2022
cotton Spandex embedded in pigmented Hydrocal
32 3/4 x 14 3/4 x 3 5/8 inches

(83.2 x 37.5 x 9.2 cm)

Untitled (Coupled Casement), 2022
cotton Spandex embedded in pigmented Hydrocal
35 1/2 x 23 3/8 x 2 3/4 inches

(90.2 x 59.4 x 7 cm)

Untitled (Upright Casement), 2022
cotton corduroy embedded in pigmented Hydrocal
4 5/8 x 18 1/2 x 10 3/4 inches

(11.7 x 47 x 27.3 cm)

Untitled (Upright Casement), 2022

cotton Spandex embedded in pigmented Hydrocal
6 x 13 x 18 3/4 inches
(15.2 x 33 x 47.6 cm)

Untitled (Tablet), 2022
bronze
35 1/8 x 15 5/8 x 1 1/2 inches

(89.2 x 39.7 x 3.8 cm)

Sheets. Bedding. Pillows.

Lint.

Surface.

Uncanny material memory.

The word felt, a material and the past tense of feel.

Wrinkles. Folds.

Bodies.

Relations(hips). Clusters. Groups.

Simultaneously soft and hard, a visual illusion.

Impressions. Casts. Cast impressions.

William Wegman "Art by Artist" @ Marc Selwyn

Hans Hoffman Residence, 1981
Mixed media collage on silver gelatin print
19 x 20 inches

William Leavitt "Garden Sound" @ Marc Selwyn

Garden Sound, 1970/2022

Artificial plants, plywood box, water, circulating pump, microphone, amplifier, speaker

30 x 144 x 84 inches

William Leavitt "Garden Sound" @ Marc Selwyn

Friday, August 19, 2022

Sergej Jensen "The Adult Light" @ Regen Projects

Inachevé, 2022

UV print and oil on sewn linen

78 3/4 x 59 inches (200 x 150 cm)

Untitled, 2022

Oil on sewn linen

75 x 57 1/4 inches (190 x 145 cm)

Untitled, 2022

Oil on sewn linen

49 1/2 x 69 inches (125 x 175 cm)

Untitled, 2022

Oil on sewn linen

79 1/8 x 63 1/8 inches (201 x 160 cm)

Untitled, 2022

Oil on sewn linen

70 7/8 x 55 1/8 inches (180 x 140 cm)

Untitled, 2022

Oil on sewn linen (moneybags)

71 1/4 x 61 1/8 inches (180 x 155 cm)

Untitled, 2022

Oil on sewn linen

79 1/4 x 65 1/8 inches (200 x 165 cm)