Lucas Blalock makes darkly comic photographs that probe discomfiting corners of the psyche while making a bawdy mess of staid photographic norms. His pictures are purposely awkward, ham-fisted, and jury-rigged. They are constructed with software that normally fades into the background, but which he thrusts center stage. Anyone with a rudimentary working knowledge of Photoshop can understand the methods Blalock employs—a jittery fuzz of clone stamping here, an irregular bit of masking there. Indeed, these are not the tricks he has up his sleeve. And this feeling that we can see the gears of the image turning is part of Blalock’s program.
The Esteemed Honoré Has Something Under His Cloak
2022
Dye sublimation print on aluminum mounted to framed archival inkjet print
Unique
Bild 90 x 60 cm / 35 1/2 x 23 3/4 in
Rahmen 106.5 x 85 x 5 cm / 42 x 33 1/2 x 2 in
© Lucas Blalock
The Gong Show
2022
Dye sublimation print on aluminum mounted to framed chromogenic print
Unique
Bild 114.5 x 144 cm / 45 x 56 5/8 in
Rahmen 187 x 185.5 x 6.5 cm / 73 5/8 x 73 1/8 x 2 1/2 in
© Lucas Blalock
The Palm Beach Medusa
2022
Dye sublimation print on aluminum mounted to framed archival inkjet print
Unique
Bild 72 x 57 cm / 28 1/4 x 22 1/2 in
Rahmen 105.5 x 85 x 5 cm / 41 1/2 x 33 1/2 x 2 in
© Lucas Blalock
The Floridian (Urodisny)
2017–2020
Dye sublimation print on aluminum
127.5 x 101.5 cm / 50 1/4 x 40 in
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
© Lucas Blalock
Film-Object (Artist's Head)
2020
Dye sublimation prints on aluminum, book cloth, motorized turntable display
35 x 59.5 x 59.5 cm / 13 3/4 x 23 3/8 x 23 3/8 in
Unique
© Lucas Blalock
Reverse Titanic / Hell is in the Air
2019
Dye sublimation print on aluminum
150 x 175.5 cm / 59 x 69 in
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
© Lucas Blalock
After Animals 2
2019
Archival inkjet print; framed
197.5 x 157.5 x 6.5 cm / 77 3/4 x 62 x 2 1/2 in
Unique
© Lucas Blalock
The Nonconformist
2017–2019
Archival Inkjet-Print, framed
213 x 158 x 6.5 cm / 83 7/8 x 62 1/4 x 2 1/2 in
Unique
© Lucas Blalock
The House Guest
2018
Archival inkjet print, framed
106.5 x 132 cm / 42 x 52 in
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
© Lucas Blalock
Lite Blues
2017
Archival inkjet print; framed
154.5 x 192 cm / 60 7/8 x 75 5/8 in
Unique
© Lucas Blalock
Emile / Man of the Future
2016–2017
Archival inkjet print, framed
169 x 134 cm / 66 5/8 x 52 3/4 in
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
© Lucas Blalock
Conch and berries and
2015–2017
Archival inkjet print; framed
85 x 105.5 cm / 33 1/2 x 41 1/2 in
Edition of 3 + 2 AP
© Lucas Blalock
Descending
2014
Archival inkjet print; framed
151 x 120 x 6 cm / 59 1/2 x 47 1/4 x 2 3/8 in
Unique
© Lucas Blalock
The Guitar Player
2013
Archival inkjet print; framed
89 x 71 cm / 35 x 28 in
© Lucas Blalock
Blue Bottles
2013
Archival inkjet print; framed
113 x 90 cm / 44 1/2 x 35 1/2 in
© Lucas Blalock
