Tag Archives: Lucas Blalock

LUCAS BLALOCK — FLORIDA, 1989

Leave a reply

Lucas Blalock was ten in 1989, when his thumb was crushed beyond repair in a freak accident on Disney World’s “Pirates of the Caribbean” ride and surgically replaced with his big toe. The procedure was somewhat experimental… but Blalock was able to maintain nearly normal use of his hand, thanks to his novel cut-and-paste digit…

As you might imagine, the psychic and physiological aftermath from the event has been ongoing. Some of this fallout was jarring, disruptive, paradigm-shifting… There is no aspect of Blalock’s work that was not shaped by this personal tragedy.*

A show of new work by Blalock is in its final weeks in New York. See link below for details.

LUCAS BLALOCK—FLORIDA, 1989*

Through April 10.

Galerie Eva Presenhuber

39 Great Jones Street, New York City.

Lucas Blalock, Florida, 1989, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, New York, February 27, 2021–April 10, 2021, from top: Vessel-Heater Frankenstein, 2020, dye sublimation print on aluminum; Animated Dad Shirt, 2020, dye sublimation print on aluminum; M_M_M_M_M (Daisychain), 2020, dye sublimation print on aluminum; Haunted Hearth (Witchcraft Advertising), 2017–2020, dye sublimation print on aluminum; Perforated Landing I, 2020, dye sublimation print on aluminum; Pool Music, 2018–2020, dye sublimation print on aluminum. Images © Lucas Blalock, courtesy of the artist and Galerie Eva Presenhuber.

LUCAS BLALOCK — THE BUTTER AND THE MONEY FOR THE BUTTER

Leave a reply

THE BUTTER AND THE MONEY FOR THE BUTTER is a new limited edition artwork by Lucas Blalock, produced on the occasion of the 2019 NY Art Book Fair.

The work is constructed of eight individual photographs printed on aluminum and bound with cloth to create a book-like sculptural object.

This Printed Matter Fundraising Edition is now available.

LUCAS BLALOCK—THE BUTTER AND THE MONEY FOR THE BUTTER (New York: Printed Matter, 2019).

Lucas Blalock, The Butter and the Money for the Butter. Images courtesy and © the artist and Printed Matter.

LUCAS BLALOCK

Leave a reply

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.