Israel Lund (born 1980, Bellow Falls, Vermont) is a conceptual painter based in Brooklyn, New York. He creates acrylic paintings using a combination of digital and analog techniques including silk-screening; digital painting; and the manipulation of photocopies, photographs and PDFs through smartphone applications.[1] His practice has been described as its “own distinctive kind of post-digital abstraction.”[2]
Lund's work concerns the “modularity and scalability” of analog painting.[1] As described by critic and art historian Alex Bacon, Lund's paintings evoke an uncanny “screen-space” that is produced in an “analog-mode” via a silk-screening process, a concept that the artist refers to as “analog.jpg”.[3] In his recent work, this process involves imprinting the palette knife through a silk screen onto the warp and weft of raw, coarse canvas.[4] The result is a dappled or “pixelated” miasma of cyan, magenta, and yellow.[5] Thea Ballard describes Lund's regimented technique as “ascetic”:
“This method is perhaps ascetic, following strict parameters of both process and dimension; most of his works conform to the dimensions of 8.5 x 11 inches (such economical tendencies nod to Lund’s roots in hardcore punk and zine-making). His initial experiments were rendered in black and white, but Lund also uses cyan, magenta, and yellow ink, a nod to CMYK printing, method commonly used reproduce photographs in print, in which these colors overlap to create a spectrum.”[6]
Working within a set of specific material constraints, Lund pushes painterly abstraction to its absolute limit. Ballard continues: “The canvas itself is less an endpoint than several (or maybe infinite?) portals or nodes through which these images are transferred.”[6]
The artist's background in hardcore punk, according to Ballard, brings a sense of musicality to bear on his work: “Lund is fond of the term noise, which here stands in well for texture, inscribing the work with a dissident musicality.”[6] Laura McLean-Ferris alternately describes this aural quality as “the snow crash of white noise.”[6] She writes: “What the noiselike qualities of Lund’s paintings, scatterings of buzz and drag, also powerfully resist is translatability, another historic signifying system that has classically been attached to painting.”[6]
Exhibitions
editIsrael Lund's work has been shown at The Rachofsky Collection, The Warehous, Dallas;[7] David Lewis, New York;[2] Lumber Room, Portland;[8] Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna (BACO) in collaboration with Galleria d’Arte Modernae Contemporanea di Bersgamo (GAMeC);[1] White Flag Projects, St. Louis;[9] and The Power Station, Dallas;[10] among others.
Collections
editLund's work is featured in the collections of the Base Arte Contemporanea Odierna (BACO), Bergamo, Italy;[11] Bienecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale, New Haven; Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick;[12] Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati;[13] Cleveland Museum of Art;[14] Dallas Museum of Art; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; MoMA Library, New York; Phoenix Art Museum; Princeton University Art Museum;[15] and the UBS Art Collection, Zürich.
References
edit- ^ a b c "Israel Lund at BACO Base Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo •Mousse Magazine". moussemagazine.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ a b McClemont, Doug (2014-11-03). "Israel Lund at David Lewis". ARTnews. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "Do You Follow? Art in Circulation 1 (Rush Transcript)". Rhizome. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "Israel Lund's Analog JPEGs". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "ISRAEL LUND / AMY GRANAT". The Brooklyn Rail. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ a b c d e McLean-Ferris, Laura; Ballard, Thea (2017). ISRAEL LUND. Dallas: The Power Station.
- ^ "Checklist | The Warehouse". thewarehousedallas.org. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "Lumber Room". www.lumberroom.com. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "White Flag Projects". www.whiteflagprojects.org. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "ISRAEL LUND". The Power Station. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "Israel Lund » Baco Arte Contemporanea". www.bacoartecontemporanea.it (in Italian). Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "2016-2017 Year in Review" (PDF). Bowdoin College.
- ^ "The Future of Contemporary at Cincinnati Art Museum". CityBeat Cincinnati. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "Untitled | Cleveland Museum of Art". www.clevelandart.org. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
- ^ "Collecting Contemporary, 1960-2015: Selections from the Schorr Collection | Princeton University Art Museum". artmuseum.princeton.edu. Retrieved 2018-03-15.