Jason Bailer Losh “Near Positive”

Zieher Smith & Horton

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Near Positive is the New York debut for Los Angeles based artist, Jason Bailer Losh. Bringing together new paintings and sculptural forms, Losh imagines a rollicking, center-less landscape, populated by static figures, and countered by wall works characterized by frenetic linearity.

With an emphasis on balance and composition, the sculptures are comprised of objects, both the ubiquitous and the unfamiliar, sourced by his father-in-law in North Carolina and sent to the artist in large parcels. Removing himself from this initial selection process, Losh reworks and modifies these objects to create new structures and configurations. Visibly influenced by modernist sculpture and engaged with art histories, the works transcend their humble materiality, becoming contemporary totems of homage and levity. Precariously perched atop both pedestal and riser, they force viewers to approach each piece at an uncanny angle, confronting the quandary of the modernist monolith from its underbelly.

The series of paintings derive from one minute sketches on paper of the objects, a practical exercise to understand the negative and positive spaces. Losh expands and multiplies his free-hand line drawings onto linen canvases. These kinetic compositions merge the immediacy of drawing with the familiarity of the silhouetted object’s drop-shadow. The warm colour palette is inspired from antique tiles and executed in acrylic and also concrete stain, further uniting the works to their sculptural counterparts.

The artist writes “Questions of positive and negative space, the re-imagining of the pedestal, modernist histories, the domestic building and disused locations (from where my materials are sourced), all of these elements are present in the finished works, pushing the work beyond purely formal concerns.”

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from March 24, 2016 to April 23, 2016

Opening Reception on 2016-03-24 from 18:00 to 20:00

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