"Meathead," 2015 Archival inkjet print, 25 × 20 in, 63.5 × 50.8 cm
Lucas Blalock’s work engages the ways that falseness or evident mechanics in photographs can bring both the picture and the pictured into sharper focus. He pursues this through a variety of overlapping strategies (often involving Photoshop) that in some way alienate the “natural” view generally associated with photography. Blalock’s pictures have been included in recent exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, the Walker Art Center, the Hammer Museum, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He has had solo exhibitions at Ramiken Crucible, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, White Flag Projects, Peder Lund Gallery, and White Cube. His work has been written about in a variety of publications including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Frieze, Mouse, Aperture, Art In America, and Charlotte Cotton’s The Photograph as Contemporary Art (Thames and Hudson). Blalock has also made a number of artist books including Towards a Warm Math (Hassla, 2011), Windows Mirrors Tabletops (Morel, 2013), Inside the White Cub (Peradam, 2014) and SPBH Subscription Series Vol. IIV (Self Publish Be Happy, 2014). Blalock was born in 1978 in Asheville, NC and currently lives in Brooklyn, NY.