A SIMPLE ARRANGEMENT OF REALISTIC PICTURES

John Jones Frames, London
1995

An arrangement of images depicts the precise, formal, but almost imperceptible transition from the city to the desert.

Pencil drawings on paper are mounted on partitions, enjoying ample light and air, an evocation of the wide-open skies of Southern California, as if to suggest that the pictures extended beyond their frames.

Surrounding them around the perimeter walls of the main gallery there are five other works. Three consist of an assembly of a hundred identical Plexiglas boxes containing prints.

A kinetic piece The Golden Hour consists of ten strips of 35-mm. Film taken, as the title suggests, during the hour before sunset, which is so beloved of film directors.

The fifth piece, Man Walks Among Us, a collection of multiple images assembled into a single picture, encompassing the view of Death Valley spread across the floor in a composition that embraces everything from the distant horizon to the sand under foot.
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