Lukas Geronimas “Seminal Echo”

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247365 presents Seminal Echo, our first solo exhibition with Lukas Geronimas.

“How can we do anything but get ‘lost in the fray’ when so many people are doing so many things all at once, not every once in a while, but once now, now, and now again…”. A constant pulsing of effort at a massive scale leads to a mass of output, and some of this output is consumed by you and I, and most of it is consumed by others. Some of what you and I consume is evaluated, and the things you and I consider to be ‘valuable’ are qualified, and spared from the cull of ‘not-valuable’ things. And those things that are unanimously qualified, considered ‘valuable’ by almost everyone, they could be described as ‘invaluable’. The ‘invaluable’ things are the seeds that help to fertilize the ‘field of production’ and the sounds that help direct the ‘traffic of production’, whatever that means to you.. The point is that you aren’t the seed, you’re the shell. You aren’t the sound, you’re the echo. The seed, and the sound, are made later. You see, the chicken came first. No one is an egg.

- John Doe

A) All of Lukas’ work in this show is an expression of content-support dynamics, with an attitude B).

Custom Framed Bar Pastels - all the colors in the box of pastels go into making each of these drawings on colored paper, which are then permanently mounted to foam board, sureply, and a wooden frame. The very edge of the frame is as thin as the paper, and the edges of the frame are ‘tuliped’ to soften the form. The subject - a Bar, or some Bars, aka a rectangular form, is also rounded off at the edges. This does something to the rectangles that doesn’t need to be talked about. The choice of this subject matter is merely a matter of fact (it’s totally, and just, a Bar).

Custom Framed Dust Drawings - The dust drawings are made using dust collected from the filters of vacuums in Lukas’ studio, which is sifted onto the inside of a non-glare plexi ante-frame sprayed with an adhesive, and then the dust is selectively removed using very rudimentary tools. The process of adding and removing dust can occur once, or many times, to achieve the desired lines. A true frame is built out of wood, and the interior panel of this frame is covered with posters sprayed with a secret dark paint. The plexi ante-frame is then mounted to the true frame, and the areas where dust has been removed reveals the dark-painted panel behind it, which gives the lines the contrast they need to ‘pop’. The two dust drawings in this show are of female nudes seated, smoking, behind bars. The frames for these dust drawings have been painted with a black lacquer, and their corners have not been rounded off, but left to stick out beyond the plane of the frame’s vertical edges, in an ‘oriental’ style.

Untitled Work(s) - This show consists of three ‘Untitled Work’s, sculptural compositions consisting of custom made objects presented in, or on, plexiglas boxes (which are of course also objects). The boxes inside of which many of these objects are framed are called ‘gift boxes’ because they consist of two nested parts that can open, and are not hermetically sealed. The content in these ‘Untitled Work’’s contends with the following: the nature of things, the intrigue of ‘use forms’*, and the desire for any established syntax and/or narrative within the works to be justly oblique. Although placed in a way that may seem mutable, these compositions are permanent. They will not be reconfigured.

*‘Use forms’ is a term Lukas uses to describe sculptures he makes that resemble useful objects, such as tables and ladders… and bones.

Custom Paint Cans - These objects are made to resemble paint cans, and are covered on their cylindrical surface with a composition in relief. The compositions consist all sorts of carved imagery, line and form, executed in many styles. They are the smallest objects in a series of ink and graphite polychromed sculptures that Lukas began in 2014. (A note on the paint cans in this show - The three paint cans in this show sit on a collapsable wooden plinth, and the four of these objects come together to form an ‘Untitled Work’. The paint cans are individual works as well, and are interchangeable with other paint cans of the same size.)

Lukas Geronimas was born in 1980 in Toronto, Canada. He received a Bachelor of Commerce from the University of British Columbia in 1999, and a Master of Fine Arts from Bard College in 2010. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. His work has received acclaim from many people he holds in high regard. It has been reviewed in Art Forum. It has been in some galleries. It has been to some fairs. And it has been included in a museum show, at the Housatonic museum, in Connecticut. Edward Albee was one of the first collectors to buy a piece of his through Kansas Gallery.