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Jason Bailer Losh "Near Positive"

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Thursday, 24 March 2016 to Saturday, 23 April 2016
Opening: 
Thursday, 24 March 2016 - 6:00pm to 8:00pm

Near Positive is the New York debut for Los Angeles based artist, Jason Bailer Losh. Bringing 

together new paintings and sculptural forms, Losh imagines a rollicking, center-less landscape, 

populated by static figures, and countered by wall works emphasizing frenetic linearity. 

 

With an emphasis on balance and composition, the sculptures are comprised of ubiquitous 

objects sourced by his father-in-law in North Carolina and sent to the artist in large parcels. 

Removing himself from this initial selection process, Losh reworks and modifies these objects 

to create new structures and configurations. Visibly influenced by modernist sculpture and 

engaged with art histories, the works transcend their humble materiality, becoming 

contemporary totems of homage and levity. Precariously perched atop both pedestal and riser, 

they force viewers to approach the object at an uncanny angle, confronting the quandary of the 

modernist monolith from its underbelly. 

 

The series of paintings derive from one minute sketches on paper of the objects, a practical 

exercise to understand the negative and positive spaces. Losh expands and multiplies his free-

hand line drawings onto linen canvases. These kinetic compositions merge the immediacy of 

drawing with the familiarity of the silhouetted object’s drop-shadow. The warm colour palette is 

inspired from antique tiles and executed in acrylic and also concrete stain, further uniting the 

works to their sculptural counterparts.

 

The artist writes “Questions of positive and negative space, the re-imagining of the pedestal, 

modernist histories, the domestic building and disused locations (from where my materials are 

sourced), all of these elements are present in the finished works, pushing the work beyond 

purely formal concerns.”

Telephone: 
212-229-1088
Venue ( Address ): 

Zieher Smith & Horton

516 W 20th St

New York, NY 10011

Horton Gallery , New York

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