SPBH BOOK CLUB VOL VII.

Photographs by Lucas Blalock.

SPBH Editions, London, United Kingdom, 2015. 6¼x8".

Selected as one of the Best Books of 2015 by:

Erik Kessels

Selected as Book of the Week by Rémi Faucheux

SPBH Book Club Vol. VII continues Blalock's investigation of stand-ins, or surrogates, with hot dogs acting as line, brushstroke, body part, and still life object. The bodied-ness of this food stuff has an uneasy, uncanny, relationship with the surface-less photograph, and this is a situation that the pictures exploit through humor and ickiness. The book itself is as much object as book with its contents in shifting orientation and the whole thing sealed shut with a sticker.

There was a Phillips 66 gas station just beyond the border of the neighborhood I grew up in which had two employees that looked, each in his own way, remarkably like Santa Clause; at least it was remarkable in the sense that there were two of them in this one gas station. I saw them often because they would sell me cigarettes before it was even remotely plausible that I was old enough to be buying them. They were $1.35 when I started. It was 1992. They are $12 now, in NYC, where I spent last winter working on the pictures collected in this book — All hot dogs.

Lucas Blalock’s most recent solo exhibition was part of Art Basel Statements in 2014. He has also held solo exhibitions with Ramiken Crucible, New York and Griffin Editions, Brooklyn among others. Blalock’s work has been included in group exhibitions with Marianne Boesky, New York; PS1, New York; On Stellar Rays, New York; Bodega, Philadelphia; Higher Pictures, New York; Foam Photography Museum Annex, Amsterdam; and Vox Populi, Philadelphia. His work has been discussed in numerous publications, including Mousse Magazine, Artforum, Frieze, Art In America, and The New Yorker. Blalock received his MFA from UCLA, Los Angeles. He lives and works in Brooklyn.

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