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Post by epicfai on Mar 7, 2012 14:15:34 GMT -8
John Houck is showing some interesting paper works in a group show at Luis De Jesus Gallery in LA. The show is entitled "DUALITIES, OMISSIONS, LOOPS, & RUPTURES" and runs until April 7th. These caught my eye over on dailydujour.com    find more over at dailydujour.com |
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Post by lowpro on Mar 7, 2012 17:09:03 GMT -8
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Post by lowpro on Mar 7, 2012 17:26:40 GMT -8
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Post by svenman on Mar 8, 2012 5:58:18 GMT -8
love these! thanks for posting alex, and thanks for the links walt.
has anyone seen these in person? it's difficult to fully imagine these from the jpgs & pdf i have...
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Post by lowpro on Mar 8, 2012 6:39:59 GMT -8
i'm sure you've checked them already, but these side details shots do the best job of providing some sense of the dimensionality and what they might look like up close in the flesh.   really find them quite mesmerizing aesthetically and the conceptual foundation is fascinating. love when the process behind conception and production is as important, if not more so, to the success of the overall work than the aesthetic qualities themselves, and that is most def the case with john's work. i'll be out in la before the end of the month, so i can report then on the in person response. |
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Post by prescriptionart on Mar 8, 2012 7:22:35 GMT -8
Yes, really like these...
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Post by epicfai on Mar 8, 2012 13:48:39 GMT -8
Thanks for the links Walt. It's really interesting to read about the process behind these. Very cool indeed. I visited the gallery today and had a look at them in person. They look fantastic. This large unique piece was hands down my favorite of the group.  The top photo was taken by myself today but the white balance and contrast is a bit off with my camera. Actually, these works are very hard to photograph without a very good camera as the grid patterns tend to create a very strong moire effect en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moir%C3%A9_patternThe piece shown above had a wonderful sense of contrast and depth. The photographic iterations used in the creation of the final work leads portions of the grid to be out of focus and hazy while other sections are sharper. As explained in the links posted by Walt above, this is caused by the folding and repeated photographing of the work. It was a real stunner in person. Unfortunately it just sold to a collector in Connecticut this morning. Anyone from the board? The illusion that is created in these works can be mind-boggling. Even close-up it can be really hard to determine what is a photographed crease and what is an actual crease in the final work. As I mentioned above, these works are challenging to photograph. You can see in the photo below the moire effect I was speaking of. This is just an artifact created in-camera by my Lumix point and shoot. A higher quality DSLR would produce much better results.  While the photos that I received from the gallery handle this problem much better they can also be a bit deceiving as they don't always pick up the detail in the pieces. For example, the gallery supplied photo below shows one of the three large unique pieces. In this photo it appears as though there is only one crease, whereas in person (and in my snapshots below) you get a better sense of the second crease.  the same piece shown on the far right.  It's an oft-repeated saying in the art world today that you need to see the works in person to fully get a sense of them and this is particularly true in the case of this wonderful collection of work. The smaller editioned works are shown below.  |
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Post by hellosir on Mar 8, 2012 15:45:33 GMT -8
Stunning! Don't know how I'll sleep tonight;-) thanks Alex!
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Post by svenman on Mar 9, 2012 13:36:41 GMT -8
well, there goes the no buying ban.
thanks for posting about this artist alex, and also for posting the pics insitu - helped me make my mind up.
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Post by epicfai on Mar 9, 2012 13:55:52 GMT -8
well, there goes the no buying ban. thanks for posting about this artist alex, and also for posting the pics insitu - helped me make my mind up. my pleasure! i think you are going to really like it. very nice framing too. |
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Post by gilsteph on Mar 10, 2012 6:13:13 GMT -8
well, there goes the no buying ban. thanks for posting about this artist alex, and also for posting the pics insitu - helped me make my mind up. Ar$e! The one problem about this forum is every time I log on I see something I like! So Sven, I have broken my new year resolution (which I guess are stupid ideas anyway!) and bought the last piece from the show. Its now officially a sell out! (and now I have to officially explain to my wife why we have more art arriving  ) |
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Post by afroken on Mar 10, 2012 12:30:04 GMT -8
lol, these were brought to my attention the other day but I've been away. I enquired today and of course they're all sold out. Now I realise why!
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Post by volvic on Mar 10, 2012 13:05:32 GMT -8
love these, once again, slow on the uptake! congrats to any who picked any up, what was pricing like?
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Post by svenman on Mar 10, 2012 14:27:18 GMT -8
stephen, if shipping comes out high we can do some sort of combo thing....
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Post by afroken on Mar 10, 2012 14:43:15 GMT -8
Looks like I might be in luck  |
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Post by svenman on Mar 11, 2012 7:51:01 GMT -8
Looks like I might be in luck nice one. which did you get? |
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Post by afroken on Mar 11, 2012 12:13:59 GMT -8
These two, but from a different gallery:  How about you? |
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Post by hellosir on Mar 11, 2012 13:45:25 GMT -8
well, there goes the no buying ban. thanks for posting about this artist alex, and also for posting the pics insitu - helped me make my mind up. Ar$e! The one problem about this forum is every time I log on I see something I like! So Sven, I have broken my new year resolution (which I guess are stupid ideas anyway!) and bought the last piece from the show. Its now officially a sell out! (and now I have to officially explain to my wife why we have more art arriving ) Congrats Gilsteph, I saw the pricelist late at night and only wanted the last large unique piece available and was too lazy to check the photos forwarded on my actual laptop rather than phone, slept on it for the night and wake up to an email saying it's sold out. If your wife has a big problem I'll help solve it by taking that piece off your hands. |
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Post by svenman on Mar 12, 2012 2:20:59 GMT -8
i got 2 of the smaller pieces afroken.
50,624 & 19,682.
i found i quite hard to decide exactly which ones to go for as i liked them all visually. the decision to buy was mainly about the 'making' process for me though on these pieces.
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Post by shine166 on Mar 12, 2012 13:28:30 GMT -8
these are great, congrats to all that picked one up
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Post by jschmidtdmd on Mar 12, 2012 14:07:19 GMT -8
So excited about the two I picked up.....wish I actually got 3........
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Post by epicfai on Mar 12, 2012 14:15:05 GMT -8
So excited about the two I picked up.....wish I actually got 3........ excellent - which ones did you grab? |
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Post by lowpro on Mar 12, 2012 16:56:32 GMT -8
So excited about the two I picked up.....wish I actually got 3........ hate to say it, but i told ya so |
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Post by jschmidtdmd on Mar 13, 2012 6:25:13 GMT -8
That you did sir.....when I went back to try to get the 3rd, they were all gone!
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Post by afroken on Mar 14, 2012 14:18:11 GMT -8
Just bought this one-off book as well. Not bad for $100. Digital Guide to Photography Unit: 2x2 Color: #E26B49 #F6D0B9 #728F9D #A4AFB5 #A1C5C5 #D3F2EA #F3F3B3 #F9D34E #D43E47 2011 10 x 7 inches Edition 1 of 1 (19 pages)      |
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