Both Chairs in CW's Living Room
Lucas Blalock American
Not on view
Blalock makes wonderful misuse of commercial retouching programs such as Photoshop that are normally used to smooth out and clean up images. In recombining pixels, color correcting incorrectly, and masking ham-fistedly, the artist lays bare the new machinery of the "digital darkroom" as a kind of blossoming viral spread of error across his images. Blalock stakes a claim—knowingly bound to fail in the spirit of West Coast Conceptualists such as Bruce Nauman and Ed Ruscha—against the insidious way in which photographic imagery has increasingly structured our deepest subjective recesses. Both Chairs in CW’s Living Room is the artist’s most purely antic picture to date, a riot of techniques gone hilariously "wrong."
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