Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Search
  • Exhibitions
    • Current
    • Upcoming
    • Past
  • Calendar
  • Learning
    • Artist Residency
    • Bookshelf Residency
    • Digital Projects
    • Public Programs
    • Schools & Community
    • Special Projects
  • Visit
  • About
    • Staff
    • Governance
    • Press
    • Partnerships
    • Opportunities
    • Annual Report
  • Shop
  • Get Involved
    • Membership
    • Patron Groups
    • Institutional Support
    • Artist Edition Series
    • Sustainability
    • Corporate
  • Donate
Yellow Pages

Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

  • Exhibitions
    • Current
    • Upcoming
    • Past
  • Calendar
  • Learning
    • Artist Residency
    • Bookshelf Residency
    • Digital Projects
    • Public Programs
    • Schools & Community
    • Special Projects
  • Visit
  • About
    • Staff
    • Governance
    • Press
    • Partnerships
    • Opportunities
    • Annual Report
  • Shop
  • Get Involved
    • Membership
    • Patron Groups
    • Institutional Support
    • Artist Edition Series
    • Sustainability
    • Corporate
  • Donate
Yellow Pages
Search
Back To Exhibitions
Lucas Blalock:
An Enormous Oar
February 10, 2019 ➽ August 04, 2019
Back
Lucas Blalock:
An Enormous Oar
February 10, 2019 ➽ August 04, 2019

Lucas Blalock:
An Enormous Oar

Exhibitions
Brooklyn-based photographer Lucas Blalock (b. 1978) uses both traditional and digital techniques to create uncanny and surreal images of ordinary things. An Enormous Oar, the artist’s first solo museum exhibition, presents over twenty works produced in the last five years focused on still-lifes, domestic scenes, and portraits.
Related Events
News
Credits & Sponsors
About the Artist
Media
March 15, 2019, 2019, 5:30 PM - 7 PM
Art Buzz: Lucas Blalock
Exhibition Programs
Free
Tours
Unspecified

March 17, 2019, 2019, 3 PM - 6 PM
Open House at ICA LA
Exhibition Programs
Talks & Panels
All Ages
3.19 openhouse instagram english

April 24, 2019, 2019, 7 PM - 9 PM
Totally Epic: Lucas Blalock and the writings of Bertolt Brecht
Exhibition Programs
Talks & Panels
Free
Lb bellhop v4 repro

June 26, 2019, 2019, 7 PM - 8 PM
Ragen Moss: Speed, Graphite, Moisture
Exhibition Programs
Tours
Ragen moss pic

May 01, 2019, 2019
Lucas Blalock
February 14, 2019, 2019
Lucas Blalock gives ‘pathetic’ objects a new lease of life at the ICA LA

Lucas Blalock: An Enormous Oar is organized by Jamillah James, Curator, ICA LA, with Alex Nicholls, Curatorial Assistant in close collaboration with the artist.

Support for Lucas Blalock: An Enormous Oar is provided by the Blue Rider Group at Morgan Stanley.

Blue Rider Group

Lucas Blalock was born in 1978 in Ashville, NC, and lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. His most recent solo exhibition Making Memeries took place at Espace Images in Vevey, Switzerland (2017). Recent group exhibitions include Optical Illusions: Contemporary Still Life, C/O Berlin, Berlin (2017); Good Dreams, Bad Dreams: American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon (2016); Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2016); Image Support, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2016); Ocean of Images: New Photography 2015, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2015); Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015); Reconstructions: Recent Photographs and Video from the Met Collection, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2015); and Rites of Spring, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston (2014). He has made a number of artist books including his latest, A Grocer’s Orgy (Primary Information, 2018); Towards a Warm Math (Hassla, 2011); Windows Mirrors Tabletops (Morel, 2013); Inside the White Cub (Peradam, 2014), among others. Blalock is also active as a writer and has published in a number of artist’s books and periodicals including Aperture, Foam, Mousse, and Objectiv. He received an MFA from UCLA, a BA from Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME.
Virtual ICA LA: Lucas Blalock
360° exhibition documentation of Lucas Blalock: An Enormous Oar

Lucas Blalock in conversation with Jamillah James, Curator, ICA LA
February 17, 2019
Lucas Blalock’s Digital Toolkit,“ 2015. From Art21’s New York Close Up digital film series, courtesy Art21, art21.org
Lucas Blalock's Digital Toolkit” width=
Lucas Blalock Gets A Little Help From His Friends,” 2012. From Art21’s New York Close Up digital film series, courtesy Art21, art21.org
Lucas Blalock Gets a Little Help From His Friends
Lucas Blalock’s 99¢ Store Still Lifes,“ 2011. From Art21’s New York Close Up digital film series, courtesy Art21, art21.org
Lucas Blalock's 99¢ Store Still Lifes
Images
Icla2.12.19 95
Icla2.12.19 82
Icla2.12.19 75
Icla2.12.19 72
Icla2.12.19 67
icon/arrow copy Created with Sketch.
icon/arrow copy Created with Sketch.
1/5
Installation view of Lucas Blalock: An Enormous Oar Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, February 10–July 21, 2019 Photo: Elon Schoenholz/ICA LA
Unspecified
Unspecified 3
Dmzo6njc
LB-Emile

Shop

Lucasblalockcover
Lucas Blalock: A Grocer’s Orgy
Find us on Facebook and Instagram
⍟ Privacy Policy ⍟
Last updated at Thursday, 09 Apr 2020 4:52 PM, by Jamillah James Log in
Database Exhibitions
1 2 3 Next Last
Back to top
?
STATUS ID Title Start date End date Featured image Last updated
Active Published
468 Sandra Vásquez de la Horra: The Awake Volcanoes 2025-10-11 2026-03-01 1:47pm Apr 14, 2025 Page
Active Published
336 Will Rawls: [siccer] 2025-04-05 2025-08-31
Icala 2025 04 09 034
9:36am May 08, 2025 Page
Active Published
369 Jackie Castillo: Through the Descent, Like the Return 2025-04-05 2025-08-31
Icala 2025 04 09 200
12:46pm Apr 25, 2025 Page
Active Published
501 J&L Books: Reading Room 2025-04-05 2025-08-31
J+l books courtesy jeff mclane installation view 01
5:27pm May 09, 2025 Page
Active Published
402 An Incessant Unknowability: An Archive of Protest Inspired Typography and Its Open Source Uses 2024-12-04 2025-03-02
Genderfail bookshelf residency image 1
1:18pm Apr 23, 2025 Page
Active Published
303 Agency of Assets x SUAY
Fix the Future
2024-10-05 2024-11-17
Icala 2024 10 11 117
3:51pm Oct 18, 2024 Page
Active Published
137 Scientia Sexualis 2024-10-05 2025-03-02
Icala 2024 10 29 001
1:52pm Apr 02, 2025 Page
Active Published
270 Demian DinéYazhi' 2024-10-05 2025-08-24
Poz 1492 (2019)
3:08pm Oct 16, 2024 Page
Active Pageless
435 Reading is Transcendental 2024-10-05 2026-03-01 3:19pm Mar 04, 2025 Page
Active Published
237 Kathryn Andrews 2024-09-07 2024-11-17
K andrews dsf9640 corrected hires
1:15pm Oct 28, 2024 Page
Active Published
204 Returning 2024-06-05 2024-07-28
Returning_Exhibition Image__01.JPG
1:51pm Mar 03, 2025 Page
Active Published
171 Ooga Boogie, cha cha cha! 2024-04-10 2024-06-02
Ooga Boogie, cha cha cha!_Exhibition Image_1.JPG
4:44pm Jul 03, 2024 Page
Active Published
138 Kima Ten Years 2024-02-10 2024-04-07
Ten years exhibition image 1
4:04pm Jul 03, 2024 Page
Active Published
133 Scratching at the Moon 2024-02-10 2024-07-28
 dsf2180
4:36pm Dec 04, 2024 Page
Active Published
136 Foreign Investments (Bottarga in Costa Mesa) 2024-02-10 2024-07-28
 dsf2106
5:11pm Jul 30, 2024 Page
Active Published
132 Barbara T. Smith: Proof 2023-10-07 2024-01-14
Installation view, _Barbara T. Smith: Proof_, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, October 7, 2023–January 14, 2024. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA.
9:33am Mar 05, 2025 Page
Active Published
134 Infinite Rehearsal with Chris Emile and No)one. Art House 2023-10-07 2024-01-14
Icala(10 10) 055
3:47pm Nov 22, 2023 Page
Active Published
135 Data (beta): the labor of looking 2023-10-07 2024-01-14
Icala(10 10) 061
2:51pm Aug 12, 2024 Page
Active Published
129 Trương Công Tùng 2023-06-10 2023-09-10
Tct 1
1:34pm Sep 13, 2023 Page
Active Published
130 Carmen Argote: I won’t abandon you, I see you, we are safe 2023-06-10 2023-09-10
Icala 2023 06 12 042
2:40pm Aug 17, 2023 Page
Active Published
131 Alberta Whittle: between a whisper and a cry 2023-06-10 2023-09-10
Aw 1
10:44am Jul 29, 2023 Page
Active Published
126 Milford Graves: Fundamental Frequency 2023-02-11 2023-05-14
Icala 2023 02 14 039
10:40am May 09, 2023 Page
Active Published
127 Jacqueline Kiyomi Gork 2023-02-11 2023-05-14
Icala 001
1:14pm May 04, 2023 Page
Active Published
128 Christine Sun Kim: Bounce Back 2023-02-11 2024-01-14
Icala 2023 02 14 001
11:42am Feb 19, 2025 Page
Active Published
91 Rebecca Morris: 2001–2022 2022-10-01 2023-01-15
Image of exhibition introduction text, Rebecca Morris painting hands in the background.
1:10pm Apr 01, 2024 Page
Search results
Loading...