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LUCAS BLALOCK

Lucas Blalock—whose work “highlight[s] his technical footprints within an image”—will give the Handtmann Photography Lecture at USC this week.*

A week later AN ENORMOUS OAR—Blalock’s first solo museum show—will open in downtown Los Angeles, presenting over twenty works from the last five years.

Blalock will join ICA LA curator and exhibition organizer Jamillah James for a conversation in mid-February.

LUCAS BLALOCK—HANDTMANN LECTURE

Tuesday, February 5, at 6 pm.

MFA Art Building, USC

3001 South Flower Street, Los Angeles.

LUCAS BLALOCK—AN ENORMOUS OAR*

February 10 through July 21.

LUCAS BLALOCK IN CONVERSATION WITH JAMILLAH JAMES

Sunday, February 17, at 3 pm.

Institute of Contemporary Art

1717 East 7th Street, downtown Los Angeles.

From top: Lucas Blalock, Conch and Berries and, 2015–17, archival inkjet print; Lucas Blalock, Emile, Man of the Future, 2016–17, archival inkjet print; Lucas Blalock, Dancing Girl, 2016; Lucas Blalock, The Sleepers, 2016, archival inkjet print. Images courtesy the artist, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich and New York, and ICA, Los Angeles.

BRADLEY — TUAZON — WILLIAMS

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A new show of paintings, drawings, and sculptures by Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, and Michael Williams is now on view thirty minutes north of Manhattan.

JOE BRADLEY — OSCAR TUAZON — MICHAEL WILLIAMS, through October 1.

BRANT FOUNDATION, 941 North Street, Greenwich.

brantfoundation.org/exhibitions/joe-bradley-oscar-tuazon-michael-williams/

Above: Joe Bradley, Baba, 2016. Private collection.

Bottom: Oscar Tuazon, Model Mother, 2018. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich/New York.
Photograph by Stefan Altenburger.

AT MARCIANO, UNPACKING REPACKING

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UNPACKING—the inaugural show at the Marciano Art Foundation—will be up through mid-September, when it makes way for the installation of a Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA exhibition, opening in October, 2017.

Included in UNPACKING—curated by Philipp Kaiser—are works by El Anatsui, Walead Beshty, Huma Bhabha, Carol Bove, Latifa Echakhch, Cyprien Gaillard, Rashid Johnson, Glenn Ligon, Paul Sietsema, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Oscar Tuazon, and Kaari Upson.

The foundation’s building—a repurposed Masonic temple—also features one of the best small bookstores in town. The shop stocks a comprehensive selection of catalogues and art books by artists in Maurice and Paul Marciano’s collection, as well as a shelf-full of back issues of the recently discontinued journal Parkett.

UNPACKING—THE MARCIANO COLLECTION

Through September 16.

Marciano Art Foundation

Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles.

From top: Oscar Tuazon, Playboy Papercrete, 2012/2013 (detail) and Latifa Echakhch, All Over 2016, images courtesy the artists and Galerie Eva Presenhuber; Adrián Villar Rojas, Two Suns (II), 2015, image courtesy the artist and the Marciano Art Foundation.

WYATT KAHN AT EVA PRESENHUBER

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For his new show at Eva Presenhuber—his second with the gallery—WYATT KAHN has reproduced eight of his earlier linen works in milled lead.

“Taking his prior compositions as a lexicon of forms to be reworked, Kahn here has swapped out the refined, pale surfaces of his older works for the darkness of elemental metal. The sheet lead Kahn employs reveals the marks of its machine milling in shifting gray surface striations, augmented by the occasional prismatic shimmer.”*

In addition, the exhibition includes nine new silver gelatin prints of domestic items—a lighbulb, a comb, a clock, a telephone, etc. “Partially obscuring the image are…out-of-focus [lines and shapes]…which have been superimposed not via digital editing, but physically: Kahn drew simple geometric designs on a clear lens filter and shot the image through its intervening composition.”*

In conjunction with the show, the monograph WYATT KAHN (2017)—with a text by Afterall, Art Review, and Parkett contributor Terry R. Myers—has been co-published by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich; Xavier Hufkens, Brussels; and JRP/Ringier, Zürich.

WYATT KAHN, through July 15.

GALERIE EVA PRESENHUBER, Löwenbräu Areal, Limmatstrasse 270, Zürich.

*presenhuber.com/home/exhibitions/2017/Wyatt-Kahn/Press-Release0.html

(From top): Wyatt Kahn, detail of Untitled, 2016, lead on panel; image from Wyatt Kahn monograph; Untitled, 2017, silver gelatin print; Untitled, 2016; Untitled, 2017; Untitled 2016. All images courtesy of Wyatt Kahn, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, and the publishers of Wyatt Kahn.

STEVEN SHEARER AT GALERIE EVA PRESENHUBER, ZURICH

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The Green Scab, 2014
Oil on canvas; artist’s frame. Image 45,5 x 35,5 cm

Chiseller’s Cabinet, 2014. Oil on canvas; artist’s frame. Image 122 x 91,5 cm

The Sickly Fauve, 2014. Oil on canvas; artist’s frame Image 40,5 x 30,5 cm

The Diminutive Muralist, 2014. Oil on canvas, 2-parts; artist’s frame Image each 122 x 91 cm

“Steven Shearer’s practice encompasses many different medias, from found photography, drawing, and painting to collage and focuses on a melancholic vision of youth, tinted by strong references to the iconography of extreme metal cuture. His world is one of alienation and repulsion towards the everyday, a world whose heroes are deathmetal rockers, 1970s prefab boy bands and teen stars, amature glam-rockers and guitar-wielding teenaged suburban dreamers. Shearer is not interested in the fame of his characters but much more so in their downfall. The artist applies to these themes an almost anthropological or phrenological approach, one in which he obsessively wanders and browses the internet to create a comprehensive archive of these images, organised by him within themes of his own. These subcultures are reflections of Shearer’s own suburban youth, aiming at shedding light onto the insecurities and vulnerabilities of adolescents, characteristics that never quite disappear into adulthood and are at the core of the human soul. Using this set of references as a starting point, Shearer displays in delicate drawings and extremely intricate paintings, portraits of these once famous faces, or unknown characters in a way that reminds one of Pre Raphaelite imagery. This exhibition focuses on portraiture, a development in the artist’s vision whereby his imagery has overcome his archival obsession, creating anonymous, androgynous characters, whose averted gaze emphasises their objectification as well as their own self absorbed and egocentric entities.” Galerie Eva Presenhuber / Press release

Steven Shearer
30 August to 25 October 2014
Galerie Eva Presenhuber
Limmatstr. 270, 8005 Zürich
www.presenhuber.com

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Tag Archives: Galerie Eva Presenhuber

LUCAS BLALOCK

BRADLEY — TUAZON — WILLIAMS

AT MARCIANO, UNPACKING REPACKING

WYATT KAHN AT EVA PRESENHUBER

STEVEN SHEARER AT GALERIE EVA PRESENHUBER, ZURICH