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

Saturday, February 10, 2018

Jeremy Blake "Station to Station" @ Honor Fraser

Station to Station 1: Robert Moses Terminal, 2001

Single Channel digital animation with sound on DVD

TRT: 16 minute continuous loop

Edition of 8

Station to Station 1: Robert Moses Terminal, 2001 and Station to Station 2: Fordham Gneiss, 2001

Station to Station 1: Robert Moses Terminal, 2001

Single Channel digital animation with sound on DVD

TRT: 16 minute continuous loop

Edition of 8

Station to Station 2: Fordham Gneiss, 2001 and Station to Station 3: Carbon Sink Park, 2001

Station to Station 3: Carbon Sink Park, 2001

Single Channel digital animation with sound on DVD

TRT: 16 minute continuous loop

Edition of 8

Station to Station 3: Carbon Sink Park, 2001 and Station to Station 4: Slumber Line, 2001

Station to Station 4: Slumber Line, 2001

Single Channel digital animation with sound on DVD

TRT: 16 minute continuous loop

Edition of 8

Station to Station 3: Carbon Sink Park, 2001 and Station to Station 4: Slumber Line, 2001

Station to Station 5: Indigo Heights, 2001

Single Channel digital animation with sound on DVD

TRT: 16 minute continuous loop

Edition of 8

Matsumi Kanemitsu "East/West" @ Louis Stern

Nov #2, 1968

Acrylic on canvas

30 1/2 x 22 1/2

Judith Linhares "The Way She Goes to Town" @ Various Small Fires

Those expecting straight documentation will be disappointed by the coverage of this show. I was interested in the bold use of color and not the subject matter. So, I did my best to capture a few nice ones. They would make really nice paintings all on their own. As they stand here on this blog, I think that they make nice photos.

Andy Robert @ Hannah Hoffman

Police and Thieves, 2017

Oil and pencil on canvas

24 x 20 inches

Not quite sure if I picked this one because of its segue from the Catherine Opie show before, but here it is anyway. It's a painting as scattered and searching as the Opie photos' subject and quite often output a la collage, somewhere between obsession and I don't know. Hard to tell which side of the line we are on sometimes, the law, the spirit of the law, or the transgressors.

Catherine Opie "The Modernist" @ Regen Projects

Sheats-Goldstein #2 (The Modernist), 2016

Pigment print

40 x 26 5/8 inches

The Modernist (Installation), 2017

Projected HD Video with 2-channel stereo sound

TRT: 21:44 looped

Mural Study #4 (The Modernist), 2016

Pigment print

20 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches

Mural by Stosh Fila (aka Pig Pen), 2016

Pigment print

64 x 96 inches

Artist #4 (The Modernist), 2016

Pigment print

40 x 26 3/4 inches

Chemosphere #2 (The Modernist), 2016

Pigment print

40 x 26 5/8 inches

Sleep (The Modernist), 2016

Pigment print

40 x 26 5/8 inches

Match fire #2 (The Modernist), 2016

Pigment print

40 x 26 5/8 inches

Chemosphere model (The Modernist), 2016

Pigment print

40 x 26 5/8 inches

Friday, February 9, 2018

Elemental @ LA Louver

John McCracken

Neptune, 1988

polyester resin and fiberglass

96 1/8 x 24 x 20 1/4 inches

Peter Alexander

10/31/17 Flo Lime Needle, 2017

urethane

100 x 5 x 5 inches

Adrian Paules

Stacked Column 7, 2016

concrete blocks, paint

96 x 26 x 21 inches

Richard Long

Trastevere Spring Line, 2012

serpentine stones

23 5/8 x 147 5/8 inches

Tom Eatherton "Mathematical Study of Progressions" @ Santa Monica City Hall

Mathematical Study of Progressions, 1986

Acrylic on canvas

44 x 79 inches

Sometimes, in the course of a day's work, I'll come across something unexpected in an unexpected place. This is one such example. More familiar with Eatherton's installation work (see here), this came as a nice surprise.