"Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971" @ LACMA

Dan Flavin

"monument" on the survival of Mrs. Reppin, 1966

Warm white and red fluorescent light

light in three dimensions moves to line in three dimensions

Fred Sandback

Blue Corner Piece, 1970

Blue Elastic Cord

line and illusion give way to layers of color 

Robert Smithson

Glass Stratum, 1967

Glass

repetition radiates from and toward a center

Robert Smithson

A Nonsite, Pine Barrens, New Jersey

1968 (nonsite)

Painted aluminum, sand, and painted wood

Robert Smithson

Gyrostasis, 1967

Painted steel

would have been nice to see this work as isolated object, the way Spiral Jetty, for example, works in Utah; this constellation of works certainly underscores the dialogue between spatial event, artwork, and representation concerns

an odd framing device of the moment

difficult not to consider Heizer out the window in relationship to the works and the show itself

Robert Grosvenor

Untitled (yellow), 1966/2016

aluminum and expoxy paint 

frozen beam of symbolic light gives way to cerebral motion; a different kind of levity

Marcel Duchamp

From or by Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Selavy (The Box in a Valise), 1935-41

Paper, board, and mixed media

open-mind and dingy tinge of collected pictorial plays; 

blacks and whites gives way to inter-dimension

Lee Bontecou

Untitled, 1960

Welded metal, canvas, and wire relief

Charles Frazier

Albion, 1962

Wood and canvas

Duchamp, Bontecou and Frazer seeking to understand surface and contact based on proximity (viewing distance)

Jean Tinguely

Odessa, 1963

Scrap, forged iron, wheel, electronic motor, and black paint

color or rather the suggested absence of color in forms; 

speaking of color and form, this Liz Larner work came to mind

"110 Fwy, June Gloom and Shrimp Tacos," 2013

Ad Reinhardt

Ultimate Painting, 1963

Oil on canvas

Color as a material and a visual/perceptual problem as it pertains to direct viewing and photographic representations such as these (my concern more than the actual concern of the works themselves save notions of absence and limitlessness)

Yves Klein

Untitled Pink Monochrome, 1961

Dry pigment and synthetic resin on gauze mounted on panel

dayoutlast statement revision

When I started this blog in January of 2010, the sharing of exhibition images was not what it is today.  Most galleries had inadequate websites and there were few 3rd party blogs/sites dominating the landscape.  This blog, for me, was a place to synthesize the photographic results of my own art viewing activity; it still is.  That said, it continues to evolve, not only as a function of my viewing preferences (my interests/tastes/foci) and how the camera technologies govern the possibilities as it pertains to field of frame and light (the constraints of space and camera (smart phones all)), but also how I am now able to also use gallery websites to cross-reference and occasionally use images to fill in gaps.  Needless to say, place, technology and subject has changed how I am able to view/understand works of art.  

What ultimately has developed, which I like best, is a collected archive of images that also includes the distillation of my range of interests as can be evidenced by the actual framing of each photograph, the sequence of images within posts as well as from one to the next, and occasionally text that supports/reinforces/supplants the image.

Technically, the blog is laid out with the most recent posts first, scrolling downwards from past page to past page like layers of sedimentation or piles/files of paper.  Thus, a temporal library of sorts is created.  Along the right hand side, there are a few blogs that I link for your interest (I rarely find time to visit them myself). Next down are the top ton most current posts on this blog; this is always a curiosity to me as some level of viewer interaction and chance are involved, not the least of which are my suspicions about contracted click-farm activities. Continuing downward is a very important component of the blog; it is titled Medium/Site and it tracks the number of posts within the categories that I have specified. It is an analytic that is an investigation of how medium and site interact (my own artistic interests coming through) as well as revealing which ones are the most in the entire blog.  It’s pretty telling and not surprising as it reveals my own focus and interest.  So, hopefully, a shift in my art-viewing in terms of both medium, subject and focus can be seen over time.