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MALCOLM LUBLINER
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Malcolm
Lubliner’s current body of work is a continuation of a series he
started in the early 1980’s. The images were originally conceived as
small theater pieces conceptually related more to the art of assemblage
than to the traditional still life. They were, in part, designed to
make use of a now discontinued Kodak material called Translite, which
enabled the photographs to appear surreal, recalling Man Ray’s 1920’s
Rayograms. One of the visual experiments in this work references
three-dimensional allusion in two-dimensional spaces where things like
gravity, time and motion can be manipulated without the usual
constraints of physical reality.
About
an earlier series titled The Anxious Landscape art historian, Robert
Mattison wrote “Lubliner’s photography captures a late-modern
sensibility: his photographs of suburban landscapes show how humankind
everywhere impinges on nature; the imposition of sign systems and
barriers upon the natural world is one of the marks of our age. Yet the
humans who made these objects seldom appear; he does not treat his
subjects with nostalgia but self-aware skepticism; and finds pathos in
the ordinary.”
Lubliner’s most
profiled work, his archive of working portraits of renowned American
artists, emerged from his decade at Gemini G.E.L. the Los Angeles art
publisher beginning in 1968 and his commission as the principal
photographer for The Los Angeles Museum of Art’s historic Art and
Technology Program between 1969 and 1971. During those years Lubliner
worked with some of the most celebrated contemporary artists, such as
Robert Rauschenberg, Claes Oldenburg, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein,
Frank Stella and Richard Serra.
Malcolm
Lubliner received his MFA at the Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles,
California in 1962. Since then, his work has been exhibited nationwide
and internationally in Paris, London, Berlin and Japan. His work is in
the collection of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles
County Museum of Art, Oakland Museum, UC Berkeley University Bancroft
Library, the California Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, the
Crocker Museum, The National Portrait Gallery and the David Packard
Collection. Reviews/Essays/Articles
SFGate: Malcolm Lubliner: Poetic photos at Togonon
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