dayoutlast

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

Tuesday, June 24, 2025

Ron Cooper "Red Mirror Square" @ Louis Stern

Red Mirror Square, 1982

transparent polyester resin, plexiglass (sic), pigment and mirror

24 x 24 x 3 5/8 inches

61 x 61 x 9.2 centimeterrs

Seeing Ron Cooper's work for the first time around 2012 in various Pacific Standard Time exhibitions---San Diego, Pomona in particular as part of the the Getty initiative of said name which in turn grounded a version of local art history---was a revelation. I had not known about him prior and was certainly drawn and keen to seen and know more. Occasionally, I run into his work here and there (Harwood in Taos; Louis Stern Fine Arts), and am reminded of what seems interesting and how we might share interests. But, ulitmately, it's curious how little he is shown or known.

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Jacqueline Humphries @ Matthew Marks | Los Angeles