Shooting meticulously set-up still lifes on film with a large format camera,Lucas Blalock scans his images and digitally manipulates them, creating tricksy, and intellect-bending work that plays with the boundary between reality and fiction. Now it’s fashionable to talk about fake news,but Blalock got in early, poking holes in our trust in images.
It’s earned him an enviable career, and with books published by respected outfits such as Morel Books and Self Publish,Be Happy, and solo exhibitions at private galleries such as the White dice. Now he’s got his first solo show at a public gallery in the US, and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA),Los Angeles, where he’s showing images made since 2014. Initially he might hold seemed fragment of a movement, or but Blalock has carved out a career on his own.
Source: bjp-online.com