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Lucas Blalock:
An Enormous Oar
February 10, 2019 ➽ August 04, 2019
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Lucas Blalock:
An Enormous Oar
February 10, 2019 ➽ August 04, 2019

Lucas Blalock:
An Enormous Oar

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Brooklyn-based photographer Lucas Blalock (b. 1978) uses both traditional and digital techniques to create uncanny and surreal images of ordinary things. An Enormous Oar, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, presents over twenty works produced in the last five years focused on still-lifes, domestic scenes, and portraits.
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March 15, 2019, 2019, 5:30 PM - 7 PM
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March 17, 2019, 2019, 3 PM - 6 PM
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April 24, 2019, 2019, 7 PM - 9 PM
Totally Epic: Lucas Blalock and the writings of Bertolt Brecht
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June 26, 2019, 2019, 7 PM - 8 PM
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Lucas Blalock gives ‘pathetic’ objects a new lease of life at the ICA LA

Lucas Blalock: An Enormous Oar is organized by Jamillah James, Curator, ICA LA, with Alex Nicholls, Curatorial Assistant in close collaboration with the artist.

Support for Lucas Blalock: An Enormous Oar is provided by the Blue Rider Group at Morgan Stanley.

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Lucas Blalock was born in 1978 in Ashville, NC, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His most recent solo exhibition Making Memeries took place at Espace Images in Vevey, Switzerland (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Optical Illusions: Contemporary Still Life, C/O Berlin, Berlin (2017); Good Dreams, Bad Dreams: American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon (2016); Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); Image Support, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2016); Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015); Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015); Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2015); and Rites of Spring, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston (2014). He has made a number of artist books including his latest, A Grocer’s Orgy (Primary Information, 2018); Towards a Warm Math (Hassla, 2011); Windows Mirrors Tabletops (Morel, 2013); Inside the White Cub (Peradam, 2014), among others. Blalock is also active as a writer and has published in a number of artist’s books and periodicals including Aperture, Foam, Mousse, and Objectiv. He received an MFA from UCLA, a BA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.
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Lucas Blalock in conversation with Jamillah James, Curator, ICA LA
February 17, 2019
Lucas Blalock’s Digital Toolkit,“ 2015. From Art21’s New York Close Up digital film series, courtesy Art21, art21.org
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Lucas Blalock Gets A Little Help From His Friends,” 2012. From Art21’s New York Close Up digital film series, courtesy Art21, art21.org
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Lucas Blalock’s 99¢ Store Still Lifes,“ 2011. From Art21’s New York Close Up digital film series, courtesy Art21, art21.org
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STATUS ID Title Start date End date Featured image Last updated
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64 Lucas Blalock:
An Enormous Oar
2019-02-10 2019-08-04
Icla2.12.19 95
4:52pm Apr 09, 2020 Page
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62 Adrian Piper
What It’s Like, What It Is #3
2018-10-07 2019-01-06
1991 what its like 3
12:12pm Jul 16, 2019 Page
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61 Agency of Assets:
Reality Augmented
2018-09-30 2019-01-06
Agencyofassets
1:44pm Apr 07, 2020 Page
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4 B. Wurtz:
This Has No Name
2018-09-30 2019-02-17
Wurtz install 05
4:54pm Apr 09, 2020 Page
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6 Nina Chanel Abney:
Royal Flush
2018-09-23 2019-01-20
Abney install 02
11:58am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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2 This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists 2018-06-03 2018-09-02
Brush for hire 14
9:02am Dec 06, 2021 Page
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20 sisters and brothers 2018-04-22 2018-06-17
Brothers & sisters 02
11:54am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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18 rafa esparza: de la Calle 2018-04-22 2018-07-15
Rafa esparza install 02
11:46am Aug 03, 2021 Page
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9 Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us (1974) 2018-02-04 2018-04-22
Szeeman install 10
11:49am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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8 Skip Arnold: Truffle Hunt 2018-01-28 2018-04-08
Arnold install 11
11:45am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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1 Martín Ramírez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation 2017-09-09 2017-12-31
Ramirez install 02
6:55pm Apr 02, 2020 Page
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7 Abigail DeVille: No Space Hidden (Shelter) 2017-09-09 2018-01-14
Deville install 02
11:37am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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5 Sarah Cain: Now I’m going to tell you everything 2017-09-09 2018-03-11
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1:19pm Nov 16, 2021 Page
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11 Moshe Ninio:
Rainbow:Rug
2015-01-17 2015-04-02
1
11:39pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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10 Brian Weil, 1979–1995:
Being in the World
2015-01-17 2015-04-18
1
11:40pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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12 Citizen Culture: Artists and Architects Shape Policy  2014-09-13 2014-12-13
1
11:38pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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13 Anri Sala: Dammi i Colori  2014-09-12 2014-11-08
1
11:34pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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14 Robert Swain: The Form of Color  2014-05-17 2014-08-23
1
4:59pm Mar 08, 2018 Page
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15 Nonfictions: Jeremiah Day/Simone Forti/Fred Dewey  2014-05-17 2014-08-23
3
11:38pm Sep 22, 2017 Page
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17 Xylor Jane: Sea Legs 2014-01-18 2014-04-05
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5:08pm Mar 08, 2018 Page
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16 Keltie Ferris: Doomsday Boogie 2014-01-17 2014-04-05
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5:07pm Mar 08, 2018 Page
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